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A photograph taken from the water of a river, showing a person in the left foreground seen from behind and in profile, holding a bright orange umbrella overhead and wearing a leopard-print shawl. Beyond the river are old multi-storey buildings with colourful painted facades, a pink-pillared structure, and a domed temple shrine on the right. Smoke rises from a ghat along the riverbank where people gather near the water's edge, and a tall lamp post stands beside a tent-covered area. The sky is pale and hazy.

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A photograph of a long-haired person in orange clothing seated by a river, resting chin on hand and gazing toward the water. The person wears a leopard-print shawl over the shoulders and has a white tilak mark on the forehead. An orange umbrella is held overhead by another person in white at the left edge. Behind is a riverfront of old stone temple spires and multi-storey buildings with colourful facades, under a pale hazy sky. Brown river water fills the lower right of the frame.A photograph taken from a boat on a river at a riverside ghat in Varanasi. In the left foreground, a man with long dark hair and a white forehead band sits wearing a leopard-print shawl over an orange saffron robe, with a rudraksha mala draped across his chest, his head bowed. An orange umbrella is partly visible at the top left. Behind the river, multi-tiered stone ghats, temple spires and stacks of firewood line the bank, and crowds of people stand and sit along the steps. Smoke rises from the cremation area at left, and several small boats rest on the brown water.A photograph taken from a riverbank in Varanasi, with a foreground figure in a leopard-print shawl sitting with one hand raised to the chin, gazing toward the ghats. Behind them, smoke rises from cremation fires on the riverside steps, with temple spires and multi-storey buildings in hazy light. A second person at the left edge wears a white shirt and an orange sash. Small figures crowd the ghat steps, and a boat sits on the river. +1 copiesA photograph of the Manikarnika ghat on the Ganges at Varanasi, seen from a boat in the foreground. Two people in the lower left are seen from behind: a man in white with an orange cloth over his shoulder, and a woman in a leopard-print top, looking toward the shore. On the ghat, smoke rises from cremation fires among piles of firewood, with a crowd of people gathered on the steps. Ornate temple spires and multi-storey buildings line the riverfront, and wooden boats rest at the water's edge.A man with long, dark, swept-back hair and a white sandal-paste and red bindi forehead mark sits by the Ganges river in Varanasi, wearing an orange saffron cloth wrapped around his body and a leopard-print shawl over his shoulders, with a rudraksha mala around his neck and hands folded in his lap. An orange umbrella with a bird logo is held over him by a person in white on the left, and a person in orange stands nearby. Behind them rise temple spires, multi-storey buildings, smoke from funeral pyres on the ghats, and crowds along the riverbank under a hazy sky. a person cues: long swept-back hair, saffron clothing, rudraksha mala and ceremonial forehead markings, seated with an umbrella held over him.A riverside ghat scene on the Ganges at Varanasi with hazy sky and smoke rising from cremation pyres along the steps. Ornate temple spires, domes and a clock tower rise behind the stone steps. In the foreground, a man in white kurta holds an orange umbrella and wears an orange scarf, beside a woman with long dark hair, a white forehead band, an orange garment and a leopard-print top. A man in a light blue shirt and glasses is at lower right. Several people and boats are scattered along the water's edge.A man with long, dark, swept-back hair sits outdoors wearing an orange saffron dhoti and a leopard-print shawl over his shoulders, with a dark rudraksha mala hanging on his chest. He has a white and red forehead marking and gazes to the side. Behind him, an orange umbrella is held by a hand at the left edge. The background shows a hazy riverfront of ancient stone temple spires and multi-storey buildings along a river, with a crowd of people on the ghats and boats at the water's edge. Given the saffron clothing, long hair, rudraksha mala and sitting position beneath the umbrella, this is a person in a sannyasi role, though the appearance cues alone leave identity uncertain.A man with long dark wavy hair sits by a riverbank in Varanasi, wearing an orange saffron dhoti and a leopard-print shawl over his shoulders, with a long rudraksha mala hanging on his chest and a white tilak mark on his forehead. Behind him an attendant in white clothes holds a bright orange umbrella overhead. The background shows ghats, temple spires and domed shrines along the Ganga, with smoke rising and people visible on the steps and boats at the water's edge.A seated man in orange clothing sits on a riverside ghat at Varanasi, with an orange umbrella held over him by an attendant in white on the left. He wears a leopard-print shawl over orange robes and a long rudraksha mala, and has a red-and-white tilak on his forehead and long dark hair swept back. Behind him stand temple spires and multi-storey buildings in hazy smoke, and people are gathered along the riverbank below.February 13 20132013-02-13February 13 20132013-02-13February 13 20132013-02-13