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Evening procession at a riverside ghat with a dense crowd of devotees. In the centre, a sannyasi in an orange-red turban and saffron robe, with a long wooden garland of beads around his neck, holds his hands in anjali with a smile; a bald man in white with a rudraksha-style beaded garland stands at lower left. Around them, men in orange, yellow and white kurtas raise phones and hands. Large yellow and orange ceremonial umbrellas with beaded fringes, red flags and a gilded palanquin-style canopy line the procession, with lit temple structures and street lights behind. The figure in the turban is a person, identified from his saffron turban, saffron robes and beaded garlands.

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