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Outdoor event at a festival enclosure with orange and cream draped tents and a mesh barrier behind. A man in an orange robe and orange turban sits cross-legged on a raised platform, wearing a long rudraksha mala and a large gold ceremonial necklace, hands folded in his lap. Beside him a woman in a red and gold sari with a veil over her head sits with palms pressed together in prayer, and a figure in white sits nearby. Orange marigold garlands hang across the scene. Behind them a framed portrait shows a figure in orange garlanded and seated. Cameras and photographers crowd the foreground and a crowd watches from behind the barrier. Swamiji (probable): the seated man in orange with turban, long hair, rudraksha mala and gold necklace.

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A large outdoor gathering under a striped yellow-and-orange tent canopy where a bearded man in saffron-orange robes and a rudraksha mala stands at centre, holding a microphone and speaking to a seated crowd on patterned rugs. Several ochre-robed sannyasis sit on the floor, some wearing orange turbans, and a long-bearded elder in orange stands nearby. Photographers with cameras stand behind, and ceremonial attendants in white dhotis with gold borders hold silver staffs and a silver trident-topped umbrella. Red and pink ceremonial umbrellas are visible at the top corners.2016-04-18Outdoor ritual gathering under a red, gold and cream patterned canopy on green grass. A seated figure in orange robes wears a long white and red flower garland and a white vertical forehead mark, eyes lowered. Behind them a man in an orange vest and white-bearded devotees in saffron and orange stand; a central-left man in a red shirt and orange-wrapped head holds a silver trident aloft. 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