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A photograph of a ceremonial blessing inside an ornate gold-toned hall. A shaved-headed man in a white kurta with a hoop earring and an orange-robed attendant with inscribed fabric stands with their back to the camera, one hand raised toward a bearded man with a tilak and white forehead markings, who wears a flower garland of pink and white blooms and a tall tied-up hairstyle. The bearded man smiles while the other figure's hand rests on his head. Golden ceremonial ornaments and a patterned gold wall form the background. The bearded man's appearance and role are uncertain from the image alone, so no identity is asserted.

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