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Outdoor photograph of a welcoming procession at a temple-like setting with a palm tree and a gold umbrella overhead. A man in a maroon dhoti with a long gold-and-bead necklace and a maroon shawl wears a garland of white jasmine and orange-yellow marigolds with red flowers. Beside him an older man in an orange-saffron shawl and white dhoti also wears white and orange garlands and gestures with open palms. A younger man in a white kurta with a pale wrap and white-and-red garland stands at the centre-right, with several men in white shirts and dhotis around them, some with hands raised in greeting. The maroon-robed figure has distinctive long swept-back hair and rudraksha-style beads, qualifying cues that suggest a person presence, while the others are devotees or attendants.