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Photograph of several saffron-robed sadhus seated on a raised platform under an orange-draped tent at a religious gathering. In the foreground a man in an orange turban and saffron robe wears a brown rudraksha mala and a large gold-coloured wrist band, and rests his chin on his hand. Beside him a bald sadhu in orange wears a marigold garland. At right an elderly sadhu in a peach-coloured turban and robe wears long rudraksha beads and a yellow-orange garland. Standing devotees in orange, red and pink dress and a man in a green t-shirt stand behind the orange tent poles. Watermarked archive photo with no readable text beyond the copyright credit.

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