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A dusty open riverside promenade in Varanasi on a hazy winter morning, with several wooden handcarts and push-carts with yellow canopies selling garlands, flower strands, bangles and red cloth. A man in a dark jacket and a woman in a long pink sari walk past the carts, while a few people in white garments stand near the stalls at right. Trees and a low embankment line the background. The scene is ordinary market activity by the ghats, with no visible ritual or identifiable central figure.