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A procession on a dirt path lined with palm trees. A young man in saffron-orange robes with a long red-and-white flower garland walks barefoot at centre, flanked by two saffron-robed sannyasis with beards and rudraksha malas. A man in white on the left wears a dark mala and a pendant, and devotees in white and cream stand along the path, several with hands pressed in anjali. Two ceremonial parasol-style umbrellas with green, red and yellow fringed canopies and a tasselled pennant are carried above the group. Petals scatter on the ground.

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