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Wide view of the Ganga ghats at Varanasi on a hazy morning, with many wooden rowboats moored along the river and stone steps crowded with people. Colourful umbrellas and canopies shade vendors and devotees sitting on the steps, and a long orange and white riverboat is docked in the middle. A tall orange flag flies from a boat near the centre, and a pale yellow-striped umbrella and pink-and-blue tarp appear in the foreground. Buildings in pink and cream line the bank under a pale sky. Many people walk and sit along the ghat, though individual figures are small and distant.

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A wide riverside view of Manikarnika Ghat on the Ganges in Varanasi, with several white-roofed boats crowded with people moored at the bank beside stacked timber logs. On the steps and ghat, funeral pyres burn with flames and smoke, and cattle and people walk among the ash and debris. Small rowboats with passengers float on the river, and a sandbank lies across the water under a hazy sky.2014-05-14October 02 20152015-10-02February 13 20132013-02-13February 13 20132013-02-13May 13 20142014-05-13Photograph taken from a wooden boat on the Ganga at Varanasi. A long-haired man in saffron-orange draped clothing, with white forehead markings, a red bindi, rudraksha beads on his arm and waist, and a necklace of large pearl-like beads, sits on the boat's flower-strewn edge looking toward the riverfront. The boat rail is blue and orange, with marigold petals scattered on white cloth. Behind him, a crowded ghat with multi-storey buildings, boats and many people stretches along the river under hazy skies. Probable Swamiji: the long swept-back hair, saffron clothing and rudraksha and pearl adornments match the page's description of him on this boat tour.2013-02-13June 04 20162016-06-04May 14 20142014-05-14May 13 20142014-05-13June 02 20162016-06-02June 02 20162016-06-02June 02 20162016-06-02