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Night photograph of a crowd walking along a lane beside a temple wall at Tiruvannamalai during a girivalam-style circumambulation. Devotees wear white dhotis and shirts, several with saffron-orange shawls draped over their shoulders, and some women wear pink, purple and maroon saris. A uniformed official in khaki stands among the group. Dim street lamps light the scene, and a lit temple gateway glows in the background. A man at the centre is slightly apart from the crowd, and a woman in pink holds a child at the lower right. No individual can be identified as a person from appearance in this image.

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