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A dense crowd gathers on red-painted stone steps at the Vaidya Sarovar, many people dressed in white dhotis and white kurtas with yellow sashes. Two large ceremonial parasol-style umbrellas with red, yellow and green panels and blue emblems are carried on tall wooden poles above a central group. A woman in an orange sari and a woman in orange stand near the middle, and a trident-topped staff is raised in the foreground. Devotees with folded hands, saffron and yellow garments and people in white fill the steps, with a bald man in a dark shirt and a man in a grey shirt nearby. The scene suggests a holy dip procession at the water's edge.

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