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Outdoor religious assembly under a blue tent with a yellow banner reading in Kannada 'Ekalanaya Maha Kumbha Mela' and 'Dharmika Sabha'. Seated on a long table draped in maroon cloth, decorated with flower garlands and potted red and yellow flowers, are several saffron-robed sadhus. On the far right, a younger man in an orange robe and orange turban wears a gold necklace and rudraksha mala and gestures with one hand. Beside him sits a bearded elder in orange robes with a long white beard. Centre, a man in white dhoti and white shawl holds papers. Left, saffron-robed monks sit among other seated men in white. A few standing people are visible at the back. The swami presence is an appearance-based candidate on the right, with long dark hair and ornate gold jewellery, but his identity is uncertain.

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