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Outdoor riverside ritual at the Triveni Sangam in Allahabad, with a bright hazy sky and a crowd seated on the stone bank. In the foreground a woman in an orange saffron sari with a rudraksha mala sits cross-legged on a black mat, hands pressed together in prayer, with a small brass plate and cup before her. Beside her a large framed photograph propped on the ground shows a robed figure in orange and white holding a staff, a portrait rather than a physical person. Behind them, seated devotees in white, blue and maroon clothing face the water, and a standing sannyasi in orange robes stands on the far right.