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Outdoor photograph of a group of saffron-robed Hindu monastics walking along a dirt path beneath large banyan-type trees with hanging aerial roots. In the centre, an elderly bearded man with long white hair wears an orange-saffron shawl and holds a tall wooden staff, and his face is partly obscured by his own hand? No, his hands are at his sides. Around him, younger monks in rust-brown dhotis and wrap cloths wear rudraksha malas; one on the left extends an arm toward the elder as if guiding him, and one on the right in gold-bordered dhoti walks barefoot. A low stone wall and rough rocks lie to the side.

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