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Outdoor procession on a village road lined with palm trees. Several colourful striped parasols with tassels and emblems are carried on tall poles above the crowd. Many devotees wear orange and saffron robes, and others wear white. A young man in front has long curly hair and a gold beaded necklace and is dressed in orange. Behind him a man in an orange-brown robe with a rudraksha mala walks among the marchers, and a woman in orange holds a rudraksha mala. Orange flags with blue emblems are raised by the crowd, and the scene is a ratha-style pilgrimage walk.

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