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Night-time photo of a crowd on a street beside a dark vehicle. At centre, a bearded man with long dark hair and a white tilak on his forehead wears a pink and white flower garland over a maroon-brown robe and a rudraksha mala, and gestures with his hands toward a group. Around him, several young men and women in saffron-orange robes stand with rudraksha malas and gold necklaces, some with white tilak marks. Older devotees in light shirts and a woman in teal sari face them from the foreground, with heads and backs partly visible. Probable Swamiji (probable) is the bearded centre figure, identified by his long hair, maroon robe, rudraksha mala and garland cues. The page describes a Panchamurti procession in Tiruvannamalai, but no procession, deity or temple is visible in the frame.

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