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A street procession of devotees walks along a paved road beside a yellow compound wall with black Tamil lettering. Several men in white kurtas and white dhotis wear orange shawls and carry long orange and multicolour canopy umbrellas with tasselled fringes, printed with Dhyanapeetam emblems. Many hold up hands in a salutation or wave, and one man raises his arm high. A bare-headed man in an orange shirt and orange shawl walks at right, holding a brass pot and a water bottle. A woman in orange and a younger woman in white carry a brass vessel. Orange flags on poles rise above the group, and dry scrubland lies beyond the road.

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