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Outdoor tent with yellow and red patterned canopy at an Ujjain gathering. Several bare-chested sadhus with ash-smeared bodies and long matted or grey hair sit on red carpets wearing marigold garlands, one with a yellow garland on his head. A standing man in an orange robe and white dhoti-style garment stands centre-left, and another man in orange clothing with a red beaded rudraksha-style mala sits at right beside a sadhu. A crowd of men in shirts and kurtas stands behind. One sadhu receives a garland while an attendant touches his head.

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