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A crowd of devotees stands waist-deep in brownish water during a holy dip. Most wear white clothes that cling wet, and many hold brass or copper kalasha pots with red cloth draped over them. A man in the foreground at left raises a copper kalasha high overhead with both arms. Nearby, a woman in white holds a kalasha at her chest, and a man in a white garment with a red sash-like cloth holds a brass pot at centre-right. Several people wear rudraksha malas. Others stand at the edges, some with hair tied back. No clearly identifiable a person candidate is visible in this crowd of bathers.

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