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A crowded outdoor procession at a festival, with a golden chariot and a golden horse-drawn carriage in the background under a red and gold canopy with colourful streamers. In the foreground, a smiling sannyasi in rust-orange robes and a matching orange turban, with a long brown rudraksha-style mala, gestures with one hand. Beside them a bearded man in orange robes and a white-haired, long-bearded elder in orange with a rudraksha mala walk through the throng. Men in white dhotis and saffron shawls, some with beaded necklaces, press around them, several raising phones. A red staff rises at left. The large group of devotees behind them is dense, numbering well over twenty people. a person candidate: the orange-turbaned figure in the foreground has long swept-back hair and rudraksha adornments, but the appearance is not clear enough to confirm identity from the photo.

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