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Outdoor photo of a group walking barefoot along a tree-lined road in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, during a girivalam-style procession. A central woman wears an orange saree with a pink flower garland and a rudraksha mala, and a man in a white dhoti and orange shawl walks beside her. Other devotees in white and saffron robes follow, and a man in white dhoti and shirt walks at the left edge. A yellow roadside signboard with Tamil script stands at right beside dense trees. The a person candidate cannot be confidently determined from appearance, so the central figure is described by role only.

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