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A street procession moves along a dusty road past a colourful temple gopuram with painted deity figures. Several men walk in a line wearing saffron-orange dhoti and shawl, some bare-chested with rudraksha malas. Two men carry long wooden poles on their shoulders. Behind them a man in a white dhoti and shirt walks at left, and onlookers and shops line the roadside. A distinctive figure in the centre-left wears a white ceremonial necklace, a dark rudraksha mala and a gold pendant, but his face and presentation alone do not establish identity, so no a person candidate is asserted.

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