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Outdoor tented gathering with orange draped walls at a Kumbh Mela event. Seated in the foreground, a bald man in orange robes and rudraksha mala on the left, and a man in a rust-red turban, rudraksha garland and gold armlet with folded hands in the centre-left. Beside him, a smiling sadhvi-style figure in orange robes and head covering, with a yellow marigold garland, touches the hands of a woman in orange and red sari bending forward at right. Other seated devotees and a standing man in a white shirt are behind them. The rust-red turban and rudraksha garland of the central figure are distinctive, but the page does not indicate his presence, so no identity is asserted.

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