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A bare-backed figure with long dark curly hair, wearing an orange cloth wrap, stands at left facing a group of people reaching their cupped hands toward the water. Several devotees in saffron, yellow and white clothes, many wearing orange sacred threads on their wrists and rudraksha malas, lean forward with outstretched hands. A man in a blue shirt and purple trousers, wearing a rudraksha mala with a pendant, stands at centre-top above the crowd. A woman in a white top with red-bordered sleeves holds her palms out, and another woman in yellow smiles with a red bindi. Small white offerings are visible in several hands. Approximately ten to twelve people are visible.

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