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Outdoor festival crowd on dry dusty ground at a Kumbhamela gathering. Centre, a bald man with a thin white beard and a bare chest wears an orange-saffron shawl draped over his head and shoulders, a rudraksha mala hanging at his chest, and a vermilion mark on his forehead. He walks beside a large red parasol with tassels and a second decorated parasol behind him. To the left, a younger man in an orange kurta and a woman in a blue patterned sari stand among devotees; to the right, men in white kurtas and an orange-clad man move through the crowd beneath a corrugated roof of a temporary structure. Several decorative umbrellas with fringes are visible. The figure in the centre has appearance-based cues of saffron clothing and rudraksha mala, so the candidate is labelled probable.

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