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A large outdoor feast hall packed with many seated devotees on a red mat floor, serving a bhandara meal from metal plates and steel trays. Many attendants wear white dhotis and sarees with orange or maroon shoulder cloths and white hairnets. Seated devotees in saffron and orange robes and orange turbans sit in rows. Some attendants bend forward to serve food. A large screen at the top shows red and orange imagery. White tent fabric forms the background.

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Large outdoor-tent feast at a Kumbh Mela style bhandara: a dense crowd of hundreds of people seated on the red carpeted floor in rows, many in saffron and orange robes and head cloths, with many more in white dhotis and white caps or hairnets. Several servers in white clothes with white hairnets carry steel plates and buckets, serving food to the seated devotees. A large screen at the top shows a stage performance. Some people wear rudraksha and marigold garlands. No single figure is clearly identifiable as a person in this wide view, so no candidate is marked.2016-05-05A large photograph of a mass seated feast in a hall with a long red carpet running through the centre. Rows of seated devotees in saffron and orange robes, many with orange turbans and head cloths, sit before rows of steel plates and bowls. Servers in white dhotis and shirts with grey head caps walk along the rows carrying steel buckets and trays, serving food. A bare-chested server wears a rudraksha mala and a red-brown cloth. The scene is a bhandara feast, with the people shown in the frame numbering far more than 100, and the seated and serving crowd fills most of the image.2016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05A large photograph of a bhandara feast in a big tent at the Ujjain Kumbh Mela camp. Rows of seated sadhus and devotees in saffron and orange robes sit on a long red carpet, with steel plates and bowls set before them. Volunteers in white dhotis and grey turbans walk between the rows serving food. Some serving figures wear white shawls, and a woman in a yellow sari with long black hair stands in the foreground beside a figure in a white dhoti. A red and gold throne-like seat appears at the far right edge, and a stage with red drapery is visible at the top. Crowd is dense with well over a hundred people visible.2016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05A large photograph of a bhandara feast in a white tent hall with a red carpet runner down the middle. Rows of seated sadhus and devotees in orange and saffron robes sit on the floor before steel thali plates. Attendants in white dhoti and white shirts walk along the rows carrying vessels and serving food, with some wearing white head coverings. A woman in a yellow saree stands in the right foreground. Banners and a screen are visible at the top of the hall.2016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05A large seated gathering of sadhus and devotees in saffron and orange robes on a red carpet inside a tent, most with grey hair and beards, many wearing orange or saffron turbans. Brass plates and small bowls are set along the carpet in front of them. In the foreground, two men in white dhotis, one with a red sash, stand facing the seated rows. A screen above the crowd shows a pink-clad figure. Hundreds of people fill the hall, forming a dense crowd of ascetics at a feast setting.2016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05