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A festival procession on a flower-decorated float at the Ujjain Kumbh Mela. Under a red and gold embroidered canopy stands a silver-framed throne carved with deer motifs. Several saffron-robed sadhus walk alongside, including a bearded man in a pink-and-red turban and red cloth, and a man in an orange robe with an orange turban and long black beard holding a pole. Behind, two people wearing pink turbans and flower garlands smile from a raised platform, with red flags fluttering. A long white-haired figure stands at the left of the float. A watermarked archive photo.

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