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A procession on a dirt path lined with tall trees and a palm frond overhead. Two large canopy umbrellas, red-blue-green-orange with tasselled fringes and lettering reading Dhyanapeetam, are carried on long poles over a figure in saffron-orange robes wearing a white flower garland and a rudraksha mala. Men in black shirts and trousers walk alongside, and a long line of men in white shirts and white dhotis, plus several people in orange robes, follows behind. A tasselled red-and-gold cloth is held at lower left. a person is not confidently identified; the figure under the canopy wears saffron, a flower garland and a rudraksha mala but the face and appearance are not distinctive enough to confirm.

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