Night photograph of a vast outdoor gathering of seated devotees in rows, each wearing white cloth with red-and-gold borders and a dark cylindrical headpiece. Strings of yellow lights and tall white floodlights illuminate the open ground, with bamboo fencing and trees in the background. - Nithyanandapedia

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Night photograph of a vast outdoor gathering of seated devotees in rows, each wearing white cloth with red-and-gold borders and a dark cylindrical headpiece. Strings of yellow lights and tall white floodlights illuminate the open ground, with bamboo fencing and trees in the background.

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