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A procession on wet paved ground at a crowded outdoor religious site, with police in khaki uniforms lining metal barricades behind. Several saffron-robed and white-robed men walk barefoot in a group; one bald man in a maroon-brown dhoti and shawl gestures with his raised hand, and another in a white dhoti with gold border wears a gold pendant and rudraksha-style beads. A central figure wears a red-orange turban and a rudraksha-beaded chain with gold ornaments. A trident stands in the upper right, and a colourful domed structure with a red and blue canopy rises in the background. Visible people number about ten, several partially visible at the edges.

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