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Outdoor photograph on a wet road beside parked vehicles, with a temple pillar and roadside billboards behind. A man in a dark-red dhoti and rust-red shawl with a gold pendant and a rudraksha-style bead garland stands at centre, with his hands near the ground. Beside him, a bald man in a red-and-gold shawl bends forward with a bead garland. On the left, an orange-robed man with tilak marks stands by a car; a bare-torsoed man in white dhoti with gold border and red waistband bends at the road, and a further figure in orange appears at the edge. a person candidate is the central figure in dark-red clothing with the gold pendant and bead mala, but the appearance is not conclusive.

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