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Outdoor procession at a crowded riverside festival site under a clear blue sky. A central figure in an orange saffron robe, an orange turban, and layered gold and beaded garlands walks among devotees and carries a long gold staff topped with a trident. Around them, men in white kurtas hold silver trident-tipped staffs and a brass trident. Colourful umbrellas with fringed edges, printed with lotus and dove motifs and the word Dhyanapeetha, are held overhead. A man in a brown jacket and orange head wrap stands at left, and a crowd of onlookers fills the background.

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