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A large outdoor gathering of devotees seated on red-painted stone steps, many blowing long golden horns (shankhas/horns) held to their mouths. In the foreground, black stone shivalingams sit on round black yoni-shaped bases, with small brass bowls and pots placed around them. A man in the lower left wears white dhoti, bare chest and a rudraksha-style mala with a bead garland. Beside him, a bare-chested man in white dhoti with an orange-brown shawl sits blowing a horn. Women in saris and salwar kameez in pink, yellow, green and red sit among the crowd, and a tall man in maroon trousers and a white shirt with a mala is visible on the right. Red flags and a loudspeaker are visible on a pole in the background, with trees and a partly cloudy sky above. No one is clearly identifiable as a figure matching the a person candidate description here.

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