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Outdoor procession at an ashram-style site with devotees carrying a covered palanquin-like shrine structure with glass panels, decorated with striped multicolour cloth banners on poles and golden lion finials on the roof. Men in white dhotis and shirts walk barefoot, one man on the left plays a hand drum, and others wear saffron, orange and red robes. Several women in white saris and orange-yellow shawls walk among them. A man in a checked shirt stands at the right edge, and a few people are seen in the background. Rubble and stone blocks lie along the path.

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