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Four people in maroon and saffron robes stand and sit on the stone ghat steps above the Ganges in Varanasi, with pale sand banks and moored boats behind them. A seated man in the foreground wears a maroon turban, an orange and white marigold garland and rudraksha beads, and rests his hand on a folded patterned rug. Behind him a bald man with a tall silver staff topped by a trident-like finial stands, another man holds a small silver pot, and a woman in maroon with rudraksha beads stands at the right edge. The men have sandalwood or tilak marks on their foreheads. The scene reads as a pilgrimage visit to a riverside shrine during a spiritual programme.

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