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Large outdoor-tent feast at a Kumbh Mela style bhandara: a dense crowd of hundreds of people seated on the red carpeted floor in rows, many in saffron and orange robes and head cloths, with many more in white dhotis and white caps or hairnets. Several servers in white clothes with white hairnets carry steel plates and buckets, serving food to the seated devotees. A large screen at the top shows a stage performance. Some people wear rudraksha and marigold garlands. No single figure is clearly identifiable as a person in this wide view, so no candidate is marked.

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A large outdoor feast hall packed with many seated devotees on a red mat floor, serving a bhandara meal from metal plates and steel trays. Many attendants wear white dhotis and sarees with orange or maroon shoulder cloths and white hairnets. Seated devotees in saffron and orange robes and orange turbans sit in rows. Some attendants bend forward to serve food. A large screen at the top shows red and orange imagery. White tent fabric forms the background.2016-05-05A large seated gathering of sadhus and devotees in saffron and orange robes on a red carpet inside a tent, most with grey hair and beards, many wearing orange or saffron turbans. Brass plates and small bowls are set along the carpet in front of them. In the foreground, two men in white dhotis, one with a red sash, stand facing the seated rows. A screen above the crowd shows a pink-clad figure. Hundreds of people fill the hall, forming a dense crowd of ascetics at a feast setting.2016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05A large feast hall with a red carpet runs through rows of seated devotees in saffron and orange robes eating from steel trays. Women in white saris with white head covers serve food from baskets and buckets along the aisles, while others in white stand and walk between the rows. Many people are seated on the floor in dense rows. No clearly identifiable a person is visible in this view.2016-05-05A large photograph of a mass seated feast in a hall with a long red carpet running through the centre. Rows of seated devotees in saffron and orange robes, many with orange turbans and head cloths, sit before rows of steel plates and bowls. Servers in white dhotis and shirts with grey head caps walk along the rows carrying steel buckets and trays, serving food. A bare-chested server wears a rudraksha mala and a red-brown cloth. The scene is a bhandara feast, with the people shown in the frame numbering far more than 100, and the seated and serving crowd fills most of the image.2016-05-05A large marquee filled with seated sadhus and devotees in saffron and orange robes, eating from metal plates arranged in long rows along a red carpet. Volunteers in white dhotis and white shirts move between the rows, serving food and carrying vessels, as part of a bhandara feast. Two screens hang above the rows and strings of marigold garlands and paper decorations line the tent ceiling. A cameraman stands at the right edge, and a potted plant sits in the foreground. No single figure is clearly identifiable as a person from this distance.2016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05A large photograph of a bhandara feast in a big tent at the Ujjain Kumbh Mela camp. Rows of seated sadhus and devotees in saffron and orange robes sit on a long red carpet, with steel plates and bowls set before them. Volunteers in white dhotis and grey turbans walk between the rows serving food. Some serving figures wear white shawls, and a woman in a yellow sari with long black hair stands in the foreground beside a figure in a white dhoti. A red and gold throne-like seat appears at the far right edge, and a stage with red drapery is visible at the top. Crowd is dense with well over a hundred people visible.2016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05May 05 20162016-05-05A large photograph of a mass bhandara feast in a big tent, with long rows of seated sadhus and devotees in saffron and orange robes eating from metal thalis on a red-carpeted aisle. Many men in white dhotis and shawls, some with grey hair coverings, move along the rows serving food and carrying vessels. A central figure in a white dhoti with a red-brown shawl walks down the carpet, while a woman in a yellow sari with long dark hair stands in the foreground facing away. Red banners and screens are visible at the top of the tent.2016-05-05 +1 copiesMay 05 20162016-05-05