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Crowded holy dip in water at Vaidya Sarovar. A man in a white shirt with long hair raises a small golden pyramid-shaped kalasha with a red cloth overhead, while devotees in white and orange clothes wade around him. Several bald and older men and women stand in the water; a woman in an orange sari and a man in a red shirt are visible. Golden kalasha vessels are held up by others in the water. Steps with red walls and onlookers in saris and white garments are at the top edge. Faces are partly obscured by splashing water and bodies crowd the frame.

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