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Outdoor procession at a Kumbh Mela camp with a decorated palanquin under a red and gold canopy strung with marigold garlands. Seated under the canopy is an elderly bearded man in saffron-orange robes with a long white beard and marigold garlands. Around the palanquin, devotees wear pink, orange and red tunics and saffron scarves, some carrying long silver staffs. Saffron flags flank the scene, and banners and posters hang from tents behind; one poster shows a bearded saint in orange with rudraksha beads and printed dates in Hindi. Several people in white kurtas and marigold garlands walk alongside, with a woman in a blue-and-white shawl in the foreground. The crowd is dense along the roadside.

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