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Evening procession on a paved path beside desert shrubs and flowering bushes. A man in a grey shirt and khaki trousers, barefoot in white socks, steps forward and reaches toward a gold-cloth-draped plate held by a man in white dhoti and shawl. Men in white ritual dress carry a yellow canopy and a multicoloured parasol with a bird emblem, and one man in white holds a tall pole with a bird emblem on a purple disc. A man in an orange robe with a rudraksha mala walks at right, with his face and hair visible, and his appearance is not clearly identifiable from this image. A man in a blue shirt walks behind the procession.

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