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Evening scene at a riverside ghat in Varanasi. A tall red-orange shrine with ornate spires and a small arched doorway stands on stone steps beside a tree. Several men are on the steps: a bare-chested man in a white vest and purple lungi carries a pink bag, a man in white dhoti and shawl stands near the shrine, a bearded man in a pink shawl and dark dhoti stands in front of the shrine doorway, and a man in orange robes stands on the right by the wall. Lower in the frame, a few heads and shoulders of people sit on the steps. A man in white clothes stands at the far right.

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