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A photograph of a riverside ghat where a crowd of devotees stands on stone steps beside dark water scattered with orange flower petals. In the centre, a barefoot figure in a saffron-orange robe, with long dark hair and a tilak on the forehead, holds a tall silver trident upright. Beside them, a woman in white clothes with a light grey-striped shawl and a purple head covering walks down toward the water, wearing blue sandals and a dark pendant on a cord. Behind them stand devotees in white, a woman in a white cap and navy sweatshirt with a lanyard, and a young man in a teal shawl. A small blue-green rope is tied to a boat at the lower right.

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