Night-time outdoor event at a festive venue strung with colourful lights. In the foreground, a seated bare-chested devotee with wet hair and white markings receives a blessing as a man with long matted dreadlocks, a crescent ornament on his head, a beard, heavy gold necklaces, bangles and a saffron-orange shawl touches his head. A gleaming silver bowl and a tray of flowers sit on a red cloth. A bare-chested man in white dhoti with a rudraksha mala stands at the right. Behind them a large crowd of women in saris and salwar kameez, some in white and blue, watches, and a photographer takes pictures. The dreadlocked man, whose appearance is consistent with the page's reference to a person, is recognisable by his crescent, ornaments and shawl, and his identity is uncertain from appearance alone.

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