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Outdoor procession scene. In the foreground, a man with shoulder-length dark hair and a red bindi wears an orange robe and a long garland of white, yellow, red and purple flowers, with a gold bead necklace and a gold-rimmed mala, and he smiles while holding his hands together. Behind him a man in a matching orange robe wears a gold bead necklace with a pendant and stands beside a gold-tipped staff. Above them a red parasol with tassels shows, and other orange-clad and white-clad attendants stand near a silver ornamental finial at the lower right. The clothing of the foreground man and the second man in orange robes is visible; the swami identity is an appearance-based candidate only and cannot be confirmed from the face.

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