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Outdoor temple procession under a large multicolored fringed parasol. Several saffron and maroon-robed sannyasis walk in a line, some with red and gold shawls, one carrying a red bundle on his palm. A man in an orange dhoti with a bare upper body and a dark orange turban lifts the parasol pole. Banana leaves and a yellow-and-red canopy surround them, with a carved stone pillar and brass lamps at left. Men and women in white dhotis and saris and a man in a green-bordered lungi watch from the right, and a child is partially visible at the edge.

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