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Outdoor riverside scene on a stone platform by a wide, pale river under hazy winter light. A man in an orange turban-style cap and orange-red robes kneels and drapes an orange cloth over the head of an older bearded sadhu in orange and beige robes who bows forward, a silver trident-topped staff (trishul) planted beside him. Behind them, robed men in orange and saffron stand watching, one in a dark knit cap and another holding a hand near the scene, with a silver ornate panel and a water bottle on the platform. Ritual blessing or honouring of a sannyasi at the riverbank.

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