Auroville Inauguration ceremony - 28.Feb.1968

The inauguration ceremony of Auroville took place on February 28th, 1968, at the centre of the future town. It was attended by more than 5,000 persons

The ceremony began with a Welcome message by The Mother. The Mother also read out the Auroville Charter in French. She was present in her room at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry and Her voice was broadcast to Auroville by All India radio.

The Auroville Charter was then read out in 16 languages. During the reading, representatives from 24 Indian States / UTs and 124 countries placed a handful of soil from their home lands in a marble-clad urn near the centre of Auroville.




Welcome Message


Welcome Message in French by The Mother at the Auroville inauguration ceremony

Welcome Message in French by The Mother at the Auroville inauguration ceremony


Welcome Message by The Mother at the Auroville inauguration ceremony

Welcome Message by The Mother at the Auroville inauguration ceremony

Greetings from Auroville to all men of goodwill.
Are invited to Auroville all those who thirst for progress and aspire to a higher and truer life.

The Mother

Words of The Mother - I > Auroville





The Mother reads the Auroville Charter


The Auroville Charter

The Auroville Charter in The Mother's handwriting

  1. Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But, to live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
  2. Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.
  3. Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations.
  4. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity.

The Mother

Words of The Mother - I > Auroville






Reading of the Auroville Charter

Tamil | Sanskrit | English | Arabic | Chinese | Dutch | German | Greek | Hebrew | Italian | Japanese | Norwegian | Russian | Spanish | Swedish | Tibetan




The Auroville Charter in Tamil

 Amrita

  1. ஆரோவில் குறிப்பிட்ட எவருக்கும் சொந்தமானது அல்ல. ஆரோவில் மனித இனம் முழுவதற்கும் சொந்தமானது ஆகும். ஆனால், ஆரோவில்லில் வசிக்க வேண்டும் என்று ஒருவர் விரும்பினால், அவர் தெய்வீக உணர்விற்கு விருப்பத்துடன் தொண்டு செய்பவராக இருக்கவேண்டும்.
  2. ஆரோவில் முடிவுறாத கல்வி, இடையறாத முன்னேற்றம், மூப்புறாத இளமை ஆகியவற்றின் இருப்பிடமாக விளங்கும்.
  3. ஆரோவில் சென்ற காலத்திற்கும், வருங்காலத்திற்கும் இடையே ஒரு பாலமாக இருக்க விழைகிறது. புற உலக, அக உலகக் கண்டுபிடிப்புகள் அனைத்தையும் பயன்படுத்தியபடி ஆரோவில்லானது துணிவுடன் எதிர்கால நன்முடிவுகளை நோக்கித் துடிப்புடன் முகிழ்த்து எழும்.
  4. ஆரோவில் மனிதகுல ஒருமைபாட்டிற்கு ஓர் உருவம் கொடுப்பதற்கான உலகியல் மற்றும் ஆன்மிக ஆராய்ச்சிகளுக்குரிய நிலையமாக விளங்கும்.

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The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Andaman & Nicobar, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa




The Auroville Charter in Sanskrit

 Madhav P. Pandit

The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala, Laccadives, Madhya Pradesh, Madras.




The Auroville Charter in English

 Norman C. Dowsett

  1. Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But, to live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the Divine Consciousness.
  2. Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages.
  3. Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations.
  4. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity.
The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Maharashtra, Manipur, Mysore, Orissa, Pondicherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh.




The Auroville Charter in Arabic

 V. Ramachendra

The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia.




The Auroville Charter in Chinese

 Dr. Hsu Hu

The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Burundi, China, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Rep.




Handvest van Auroville (Dutch)

 Wil van Liet

  1. Auroville behoort aan niemand in het bijzonder. Auroville behoort aan de mensheid in haar geheel. Maar om in Auroville te wonen moet men vrijwillig dienstbaar willen zijn aan het Goddelijk Bewustzijn.
  2. Auroville zal de plaats zijn van een nooit eindigende leerschool, van een voortdurende vooruitgang en van een jeugd die nooit zal verouderen.
  3. Auroville wil de brug zijn tussen het verleden en de toekomst. Gebruik makend van alle ontdekkingen omtrent het uiterlijke en het innerlijke, wil zij de stoutmoedige sprong wagen naar de toekomstige verwezenlijking.
  4. Auroville zal de plaats zijn van onderzoek op materieel en spiritueel gebied ten einde een levende gestalte te geven aan een concrete Eenheid van de Mensheid.
The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Ceylon, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Congo (Kinshasa), Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus




The Auroville Charter in German

 Theodora Karnash

The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Czechoslovakia, Dahomey (Now Benin), Denmark, Dominican Rep., Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland.




The Auroville Charter in Greek

 Richard Rigos

The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
France, Gabon, Germany (West), Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras.




The Auroville Charter in Hebrew

 Dr. Max Stryer

The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast.




Carta di Auroville (Italian)

 Alberto Grassi (Nata)

  1. Auroville non e la proprieta privata, ma appartiene all umanita. Per vivere in Auroville si deve essere il servitore volontario della coscienza divina.
  2. Auroville saca luogo di educazione continue, di progresso continue e di giovinezza senza declinio.
  3. Auroville vuel essere il ponte fra il passato e l’avenire Approfittando delle scoperte ineriori ed esteriori, vuele arditamente slanciazsi verso realizaazioni future.
  4. Auroville sara il luogo di ricerche materiali e spirituali per date un corpo vivante ad una unita umana effectiva.
The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia.




オーロビル憲章 (Japanese) - 昭和四十三年二月二十八日

 Omkardas (Kobayashi)

  1. オーロビル市は特に何人にも属するものではない。オーロビル市は人類全体に所属する。しかしこの市に住むものは「神聖なるものの意識」に対する心からの奉仕者であらねばならない。
  2. オーロビル市は尽きることのない教育と絶えまない進展の場であり、不老の若人の都市である。
  3. オーロビル市は過去と未来との橋渡しとなるべきである。物心両面にわたる発見と創見とを活用しつつオーロビル市は未来への理想実現に向かって大胆に飛躍するであろう。
  4. オーロビル市は真の人類和合の生きた具体化のために物質的研究と精神的探究との場所となるであろう。

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The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Libya, Luxembourg, Malagasy (now Madagascar), Malta, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania.




The Auroville Charter in Norwegian

 Else Heen

The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Rep. of Niger, Feder. of Nigeria.




The Auroville Charter in Russian

 Svetlana Pitoeff Alward

  1. Ауровиль не принадлежит ни одному человеку. Ауровиль принадлежит человечеству в целом. Но чтобы жить в Ауровиле, нужно быть добровольным слугой Божественного Сознания.
  2. Ауровиль будет местом нескончаемого образования, постоянного прогресса и юности, которая никогда не стареет.
  3. Ауровиль должен быть мостом между прошлым и будущим. Получая преимущества всех открытий извне и изнутри, Ауровиль будет храбро бросаться к будущим реализациям.
  4. Ауровиль будет местом материальных и духовных исследований для живого воплощения подлинного Человеческого Единства.
The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar.




Declaración de Auroville (Spanish)

 Maggi Lidchi-Grassi

  1. Auroville no pertenece a pedir en particular. Auroville pertenece a la humanidad toda. Para poder habitar Auroville, Hay que ser el servidor voluntario de la consciencia divina.
  2. Auroville será el lugar de la educación continua, del progreso constante y de una juventud que no envejece.
  3. Auroville quiere ser el puerta entre el pasado y el porvenir. Aprovechado de todos los desabrimientos externos e internos, quiere proyectare andagmente haiia las realizaciones futuras.
  4. Auroville será el lugar de las investigaciones materiales y espirituales a fines de octongar un cuerpo viviente a una unidad humana efectiva.
The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe), Rumania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sikkim, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, South Yemen, Spain, Sudan.




The Auroville Charter in Swedish

 Charlotte Neogy (Shyama)

The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Tibet (in China), Uganda.




The Auroville Charter in Tibetan

 Katak Tulku L.T.N.

The following batch of representatives placed soil in the Urn during the reading:
Canada (Quebec), USSR, United Arab Republic (now Egypt), United Kindom, USA, Upper Volta (Now Burkina Faso), Uruguay, Venezuela, Viet Nam (South), Yugoslavia, Zambia.




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Photographs

Plan for Inauguration

Sketch of the Urn by The Mother





Placing the soil in the Urn



The Urn containing soil from 24 Indian states and 124 countries

The Auroville Charter written by the Mother & the soil of the Samadhi being taken to the Urn by Kiran & Vijay Poddar

Fabienne & Kalya (The Mother’s great-grandchildren) placing the soil of Auroville in the Urn

Nolini Kanta Gupta & his eldest son, Samir Kanta Gupta, sealing the Urn




24 States / U.T. of India



1. Andaman & Nicobar
Niladri Banerjee, Kusum Barai
2. Andhra Pradesh
M. Sesha Sai, Harini Gopal
3. Assam
Dilip Agarwal °, Karuna Mukherj
4. West Bengal
Somen Biswas, Bandana Maitra
5. Bihar
Hemant Dayal, Pushpa Sinha
6. Chandigarh
Rajender Mohan Singh, Pimmy Ahluwalia
7. Delhi
C.S. Suryanarayanan, Avaninder Grewal
8. Goa
Rajendra Tamba, Judith de Souza
9. Gujarat
Makwana Valjibhai Bhikabhai, Parajia Khajendrika Shantilal
10. Haryana
Upendra Ratra, Rita Sardana
11. Himachal Pradesh
Vijay Sharma, Maria Jain°
12. Jammu & Kashmir
Rafiq Ahmed Bazaz, Anita Samyal
13. Kerala
Vinod Das, Shabha Das
14. Laccadives (Lakshadweep)
K.M. Kunhiseedikoya (M 15), K.K. Hajrommabi F 14, K.M. Manu (escort)
15. Madhya Pradesh
Pratap Reddy, Kiran Mehta
16. Madras
R. Kuppuswamy, R. Chitralekha
17. Maharashtra
Maraban Patrawala, Nakadi
18. Manipur
Pratik Ghose°, Tripti Das
19. Mysore
I. Sreekant, Uma Ratna
20. Orissa
Subhranshu Mishra, Meera Singh
21. Pondicherry
R. Selvaraj, Nirmala N.
22. Punjab
Anand Arya, Gulshan Sippy
23. Rajasthan
Navin Poddar, Manju Jhunjhunwala
24. Uttar Pradesh
Diwakar Kamboj




124 countries

Representatives placing soil in the Urn


Afghanistan

Moh. Tarik Abawi (male, 21)
Pemma Chodan*

[1]





Albania

Debrata Haldar*
Chhanda Mukkerjee*

[2]





Algeria

Abijit Gupta*
Gauri Gupta*

[3]





Argentina

Cristobal M. Kirton (male, 22)
Sunita Mahatta*

[4]





Australia

Ross Conabere (male, 23)
Niranjana Arya*

[5]

Austria

Joseph Szarkar*
Suzanne Steiger*

[6]

Belgium

Kiran Kakkad*°
Asha Kothari*

[7]

Bhutan

Bishma Kandoi*
Sumitra Dhandania*

[8]





Bolivia

Vivek Rane*
Vinay Sharan*

[9]





Brazil

Laxman Mahtani*
Maria Lucia Carrera (female, 19)

[10]





Bulgaria

Mihail Dimitrov (male, 20)
Sangeeta Chowdhury*

[11]

Burma

Maung-Tin-Nyunt (male, 27)
Debjani Haldar*

[12]





Burundi

Debdas Chatterjee*
Smita Mehta*

[13]

China (nationalist)

Kanu Dey*
Vimala Mouttaya*

[14]

China (communist)

Bokul Chakravarty*
Hema Singh*

[15]

Cambodia

C. Konthal (male, 12)
Kalyani Bhattacharya*

[16]

Cameroon

John Ndeh (male, 21)
Gargi Bajpei*

[17]

Canada

Stephen Inglis (male, 18)
Terry Delanny

[18]





Central African Rep.

Purushottam*
Dipali Chakravarty*

[19]

Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)

Bandu Senaratna
Patsy Kreltszheim (female, 19)

[20]





Chad

Nityaprakash Khare*
Lavanya Reddy*

[21]





Chile

Ratan Ghose*
Indu Rai*

[22]

Colombia

Fernando Iragorri (male, 21)
Shashikala Patel*

[23]

Congo

Shobhan Roy Chowdhurry*Pinakini Patel*

[24]

Congo (Kinshasa)

Nalin Patel*
Aruna Barai*

[25]

Costa Rica

Jitendra Shah*
Antika Ghose*

[26]

Cuba

Ravi S.*
Villas Patel*°

[27]

Cyprus

Arvind Mistry*
Chandrima Sengupta*

[28]

Czechoslovakia (now split in two countries)

Jiri Strasiripka (male, 20)
Ales Wotruba (male, 18)

[29]

Dahomey (Now Benin)

Basabjit Deshmukh*
Meera Roy*

[30]

Denmark

Swen Pedersen (male, 23)
Lison Ratra*

[31]

Dominican Rep.

Ashwin Kakkad*
Charubala Patel*

[32]

Ecuador

Ajay Sharma*
Jyoti Reddy*

[33]

El Salvador

Kabul P. Mitra*
Sutapa Kanungo*

[34]

Ethiopia

Swapan Basu*
Deepa Didwania*

[35]

Fiji

Sashi Kant (male, 21)
Jyoti Patel*

[36]

Finland

Siddharta Bhabcock*
Archana Maheswari*

[37]

France

Pierre Gros (male, 20)
Dominique Marty (female, 20)

[38]

Gabon

Rajanikant Naik*
Nishta Mukkerjee*

[39]

Germany (West) (now re-united)

Reinhold Pingel (male, 25)
Petra Erdmann (female, 26)

[40]

Ghana

Milan Ghose*
Indra Tendon*

[41]

Greece

Pritwiraj Narasimham*
Denise Sioris (female, 17)

[42]

Guatemala

Ranajit Roy*
Tossi Bose*

[43]

Guinea

Rajesh Saha*
Rita Bhattacharjee*

[44]

Haiti

Aveni Shah*
Nanda Reddy*

[45]

Honduras

Vinay Anuru*
Charulata Patel*

[46]

Hungary

Audrey (F)
Elizabeth Andai (F)

[47]

Iceland

Maurice Shukla*
Vishakha Patel*

[48]

Indonesia

Mohamad Kartono (male, 17)
Minoti Mohanti*

[49]

Iran

Siavash Hatami (male, 20)
Shahla Danesh (female, 21)

[50]

Iraq

Walid Khalid Al Wadi (male, 23)
M. Kadhum Latif (male, 21)

[51]

Ireland

Garvano Gallagher (male, 17)
Seraphine Martin

[52]

Israel

Sharad Parekh*
Suman Mehra*

[53]

Italy

Bruno Petris
Elena Bellotti

[54]

Ivory Coast

Rashesh Jivarajani*
Minakshi Patel*

[55]

Jamaica

Kamalesh Patel*
Veronica Braham*

[56]

Japan

Ashwin Barai*
Wakako

[57]

Jordan

Usama Sulaiman Abughosh (15)
Savitri Umachigi*

[58]

Kenya

Paul Kingola Maundu (male, 18)
Alex Mboha (male, 28)

[59]

South Korea

Paljore Thondup*
Rachita Nayak*

[60]





Kuwait

Bader Abughosh (male, 16)
Basil Abughosh (male, 17)

[61]

Laos

Boun Hom Prakhin (male, 13)
Boum Sou Prakhin (female, 14)

[62]

Lebanon

Nabil Mniemne1 (male, 25) or Nirmal Jhunjhunwala*
Shernaz Daruwala*

[63]





Liberia

Anand Reddy*
Ruby Roy*

[64]

Libya

Amitangshu Chakravarty*
Gita Patel*

[65]

Luxembourg

Rajeev Reddy*
Mounou Shamsukha*

[66]

Malagasy (now Madagascar)

Abhijit Mitra*
Swapna Artaud*

[67]

Malta

Mahesh Patel*
Rina Chakravarty*

[68]

Malaysia

Eusebeus Gunter (male, 13)
Kau-Soo-Keong (male, 15)

[69]

Mauritius

Bhardwaj Modi (male, 21)
Veena Poddar*

[70]

Mali

Ranajit Gupta*
Bhuma Bajpei*

[71]

Morocco

Surendra Dingh Chouhan*
Sanjukta Lall*

[72]

Mauritania

Shreyas Gandhi*
Moon Patel*

[73]

Mexico

Jaganath Panda*
Mukti Das*

[74]

Mongolia

Thok Thok Bazar (male, 14)
Chetana Kothari*

[75]

Mozambique

Mukund Patel*
Savita K.*

[76]

Nepal

Vishnulalit*
Anita Kumari Garg (female, 18)

[77]

Netherlands

Hubert van Rijckevorsel (male, 16)
Carian Witte (female, 18)

[78]

New Zealand

Anthony Brian Lendrum (male, 20)
Lotus Patel*

[79]

Nicaragua

Chandravadan Arya*
Jacques Dhandania*

[80]

Rep. of Niger

Prakash Budihal*
Bharati Shah*

[81]

Feder. of Nigeria

Amakpoho Rufus Iwatt (male, 23), Sudha Srivastava*
G.K.Y. Jacks (male, 36)

[82]

Norway

Henning Christensen
Kristin Gylseth (female, 19)

[83]

Pakistan

Bhagawat Dolia*
Subhra Banerjee*

[84]

Panama

Animesh Samanthray*
Chetana Bhatt*

[85]

Paraguay

Subbas Thakkar*
Renu Gupta*

[86]

Peru

Eduardo Sarmiento (male, 22)
Bharati D. Patel*

[87]

Philippines

Walfrido Adan (male, 18)
Chandralekha Patel*

[88]

Poland

Agami Reddy*
Prema Singh*

[89]

Portugal

Kanhaiya Dalmia*
Evelyne Janssens*

[90]

Qatar

Rajan Sankpal*
Savita Srivasthava*

[91]

Rhodesia (Now Zimbabwe)

S.K. Hwindingwi (male, 25)
Gita C. Patel*

[92]

Rumania

Touyamani Bala*
Bala Kottamasu*

[93]

Rwanda

Tejendra Parmar*
Vikhram Dolia*

[94]

Saudi Arabia

Michael Barretto (male, 15)
Vasundhara Bhatt*

[95]

Senegal

Mahesh B. Patel*
Bharati B. Patel*

[96]

Sikkim

Prem Bahadur Subba (male, 17)
Om Kumari Pradhan (female, 18)
Chumsang Bhutia (female, 18)

[97]

Singapore

Indra Arya*
Gracey John (female, 18)

[98]

Somalia

Bashir Gardaad (male, 25)
Bulbul Dhir*

[99]

South Africa

Mukesh Gupta*
Datta Mukherjee*

[100]

South Yemen (now re-united)

Mohsen Hamdani (male, 24)
Cheta Poddar*

[101]

Spain

Lopez Nadal Gonzalo (male, 15)
Gita Dolia*

[102]

Sudan

Henry Khamis Wani (male, 24)
Pragna Karuna*

[103]

Sweden

Lars Freden (male, 16)
Kankana Mukherjee*

[104]

Switzerland

Oscar Loser°
Sahadja Christiane Roll

[105]

Syria

Tarun K. Banerjee*
Tapas Bhatt*°

[106]

Tanzania

Meelit Shah (male, 12)
Mamta Shah (female, 14)

[107]

Thailand

Arup Mitra*
Aruna Nandi*

[108]

Togo

Jay Sharma*
Autoshi Bose*

[109]

Tunisia

Benimadhav Mohanti*
Uma Dhandania*

[110]

Turkey

Mr.
Mrs. Akay

[111]

Tibet (already in China)

Galek Namgyal*
Dikki Dolker*

[112]

Uganda

J.M. Ssentongo (male, 22)
Kamala Atrey*

[113]

Canada (Quebec)

Jean Pierre Bunel
Madeleine Gosselin (F)

[114]

Union of the Socialist Sovietic Republics (USSR)

Sergey Mirakyan (male, 10)
Alla Didenka (female, 10)

[115]

United Arab Republic (now Egypt)

M. Sharweed (male, 33)
M. Fawzy Abdalla (male, 29)

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United Kindom

Julian Earle (male, 19)
Joanna Lancashire (female, 18)

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United States of America

John A. Ware (male, 19)
Jeannie Ernst (female, 19)
Louise Owens (female, 23)

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Upper Volta (Now Burkina Faso)

Gurudas Banerjee*
Ila Patel*

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Uruguay

Bipin Bihari Prasad*
Amala Mouttaya*

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Venezuela

Vijay Anuru*
Gita Lall*

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Vietnam (South)

Jack Duong Son Thong (male, 18)
Anne-Marie Duong Ngoc Thu (female, 17)

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Yugoslavia

Danor Bonacic
Katarina Treppo
Maro Bonacic

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Zambia

Inyambo Nyumbu (male, 19)
Christine Chilangwa (female, 21)
Arnon Dixi Zulu (male, 21)

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