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Outdoor procession at dusk beneath leafy trees. Three ornate multicoloured parasols with fringed edges and gold poles are held aloft over a group of men in white dhotis and white turbans, several with full beards and rudraksha malas. Orange-red flags on poles flank the group. A woman in a white sari with a green border and a jasmine garland in her hair plays a large drum on the left, and a man in white stands on concrete steps in the foreground. Other white-clad devotees and a woman in glasses and orange-red mala stand on the right. No figure with distinctive presentation cues is clearly identifiable, so no candidate is named.

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