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Outdoor street scene in a town with a crowd of onlookers beside a silver car. A smiling man in an orange saffron turban and orange shawl wears long garlands of white flowers and magenta blossoms, and gestures with one hand toward the crowd. Behind him, a white flag hangs from a building, a sculpted deity figure of Nandi and a white statue of Shiva sit on a rooftop, and utility poles and trees rise against a bright sky. A man in grey shirt stands at right.

Outdoors in daylight, a long-haired figure in a saffron-orange sannyasi robe stands smiling while a man in a white shirt and dark trousers places a garland of white flowers and red and green leaves around his neck. Several men in white dhotis and shirts, hands joined in greeting, stand nearby. A silver SUV is parked behind, and people look on from a balcony above a whitewashed building with a small framed picture on its wall.

A photograph of a man in saffron-orange robes and a matching orange turban, wearing a long rudraksha mala, stepping beside an open silver vehicle door while smiling. Two men in white shirts stand beside him, one holding the door and the other reaching toward it. Behind them a crowd of people, mostly in white, gathers along a tree-lined road with a white temple gateway and a parked white van.

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A smiling man in saffron-orange robes and a saffron turban stands beside a silver vehicle on a roadside under a pale sky. He wears a long garland of white flowers with pink, purple and green threads, a heavy gold chain and a red tilak on his forehead. Several people in white shirts and dhotis surround him, one bending forward in the foreground, and a boy in orange clothing with a red mark on his forehead stands at right. A roof rack is visible on the vehicle behind.

Photograph outdoors near a roadside in front of a silver car. A man in an orange turban and orange robe, wearing long garlands of white jasmine, red and purple flowers, smiles broadly while another man in white in the left foreground faces him and holds a large floral garland of white and orange blossoms with green leaves. Several onlookers stand behind, including a young woman, and a stone sculpture of a deity sits on a rooftop in the background. Appearance-based candidate: a person, identified by orange turban and robe with heavy garlands, though the face is not visible in any identifying way and appearance is uncertain.

Outdoor photograph of a crowd of men in white dhotis and white shirts pressing around a silver car with its door open. In the foreground a figure in an orange-saffron turban and orange robe, with long dark hair, bends forward at the car door while a man in a white shirt holds a white jasmine garland toward them. Many onlookers, some with raised hands, fill the street; a white gate and a building with a blue-and-white sign appear behind. a person in saffron turban and robe receiving a garland at a car door, with devotees in white around him.

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Outdoor photograph of a dense crowd of men in white dhotis and shirts gathered on a dusty road beside parked white cars. At centre, a smiling young man in an orange-red head cloth and orange-red shawl, with a white flower garland and hands pressed together in anjali, is shielded by a red and green canopy umbrella held aloft by a bystander. Next to him, a man in white with tripundra forehead markings holds a round rosette-like token. Many people in the crowd wear white and some have tilak markings; roughly a few dozen people are visible, the crowd extending past the frame.

Photo of a welcome at an outdoor entrance with pale flooring scattered with flower petals. A long-haired figure in a saffron-orange robe with a red-and-white flower garland and a red bindi stands centre, smiling and extending a hand toward the crowd. Swamiji (probable): long swept-back hair, saffron robe and a flower garland. Around him, men in white dhotis and shirts and a man in beige shirt-and-trousers holding a silver tray with a kalasha-style vessel, red flowers and a green leaf greet the visitor. A white car and a building with columns stand behind, and a few more men in orange and white fill the background.

A crowd of men in white shirts and white dhotis presses around a figure in an orange saffron turban and orange sleeveless robe with a white flower garland, standing beside a silver car at a street outside a building. Several men in front press their palms together in anjali greeting, and one at the left has his hand on his chest. Another man in a pink shirt reaches toward the car door. Many onlookers are visible behind them, several wearing rudraksha-style beaded necklaces. The saffron-clad figure has long dark hair and is the central focus of the greeting.

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