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A washed-out photograph of a group descending a wide stone ghat staircase. In the centre, a shaved-headed man in orange robes wears a flower garland and a bead necklace. Behind him, several monks in orange and saffron cloth walk down the steps. A woman in a pink sari stands at the top beside a second woman in red, and a bare-chested man in a red dhoti stands in the foreground on the left. A railing runs along the left edge, with a carved wall and barred window at right. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance alone, so the central garlanded monk is described by role only.

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