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Photograph of a procession leaving the front entrance of Agrasen Bhavan in Rameswaram, a yellow-cream building with a sign reading AGRASEN BHAVAN, RAMESWARAM (AGRAWAL SABHA, MADURAI) and a swastika on the gate pillar. A central figure in a saffron-orange robe with a matching orange head wrap and a long rudraksha mala walks forward with hands together, a garland of flowers around the neck. Beside him a bare-chested man in white dhoti holds a long white fly-whisk type staff, and other saffron-robed sannyasis and white-clad devotees follow. A woman in a green sari stands at right near a yellow auto-rickshaw. The crowd visible is about eight people.

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