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Outdoor photo at the Triveni Sangam riverbank in Allahabad, with a crowd seated and standing on a stone ghat under hazy winter light. In the foreground a woman with long dark loose hair, wearing an orange-saffron garment, sits cross-legged on a dark mat with palms pressed together in prayer, beside a small brass plate and cup. To the left a man in white clothes sits with hands folded, and other devotees in white, red and dark clothing sit or stand nearby. At the right edge a framed photograph of a bearded, saffron-clad figure with long hair rests on the ground; this is a printed portrait, not a physical person. Several visible people in the background stand near the water.