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Night-time photograph of a procession crowd. At centre, a bearded man with long swept-back dark hair wears a reddish-brown wrap, a green leaf garland with white flowers and a brown rudraksha mala, with a white tilak on his forehead; he extends an offering toward a man in a white-and-blue checked shirt who holds up cupped hands. Around him, devotees in saffron-orange cloth wear rudraksha malas and gold chains, some with white-painted foreheads, and one young man at right with long dark hair and a large rudraksha necklace stands close. A stone wall and a few lights are visible behind the crowd. The bearded central figure matches the Swamiji (probable) candidate: long hair, distinctive garland and rudraksha mala cues, and a reddish-brown wrap.

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