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A man in a brown-orange robe stands at the centre with palms pressed together in greeting, smiling broadly. He wears a large garland of pink, yellow and white flowers with green leaves, a white horizontal forehead mark, and a rudraksha-style cord at his waist. Around him, devotees and onlookers in white and light clothing, some wearing gold ceremonial necklaces, press close in a narrow street lit at night with a yellow pillar and shopfronts behind. A woman on the right wears a floral sari and holds her hands together. Appearance-based label: a person, shown in person with garland and greeting, though cues are limited to the robe and garland and the identity is uncertain.

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