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Outdoor procession scene in a village setting with palm trees, a tiled-roof building and a temple tower behind. In the centre a smiling man wears an orange-saffron robe, a pink flower garland, a rudraksha mala with white skull-like beads, a gold pendant and a headband of beads, raising one hand in greeting and holding a long wooden staff. To the right an older bald man in a similar saffron robe with a pink garland, rudraksha mala and gold pendant smiles and touches his beaded headband. A bald man in orange robes with a gold-beaded necklace stands at the left edge, and a woman in a white sari with a gold border stands at the right with prayer-like hands. A man in white dhoti and a shirtless young man with a staff move behind. a person is the centre figure wearing the saffron robe, pink garland and rudraksha mala, shown in a procession-style greeting.

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