Night photograph beside a garland of pink and yellow flowers and strings of coloured lights. A long-bearded elder in saffron-orange robes, with a red tilak on his forehead, holds a live snake wrapped around a wooden staff and looks down at it. Beside him a smiling younger man with a shaved head wears a rust-brown shawl and dhoti with gold borders, a red bindu, and a rudraksha mala. - Nithyanandapedia

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Night photograph beside a garland of pink and yellow flowers and strings of coloured lights. A long-bearded elder in saffron-orange robes, with a red tilak on his forehead, holds a live snake wrapped around a wooden staff and looks down at it. Beside him a smiling younger man with a shaved head wears a rust-brown shawl and dhoti with gold borders, a red bindu, and a rudraksha mala.

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Outdoor photograph of a procession-like group of saffron and rust-robed sadhus walking past a pink fabric backdrop and a decorated yellow-and-red canopy. A man at left with long dark hair, wearing a rust-brown dhoti and shawl with a long rudraksha mala and gold-trimmed cloth, gestures while speaking. Beside him, a white-bearded elder in orange robes holds a carved wooden staff topped with a cobra and wears a red mala and forehead marks. Behind them, shaved-headed men in rust robes wear dark rudraksha malas and vibhuti forehead marks, and a woman in the background wears a sari. A red wall and construction sand pile appear behind the group.

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