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A photograph of four men walking in procession along a paved path lined with green trees and yellow flowering shrubs. In the centre, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti holds a woven basket of yellow marigold garlands with green leaves and a decorated kalasha-like vessel, marked with red kumkum dots. Behind him a man in white shirt and glasses walks, and to the right a man with tilak on his forehead and white dhoti carries a metal tray of flowers. On the left a man in a white shirt and dark trousers carries a tray with a red box. Other figures in white are visible further down the path.

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