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A photograph of a large outdoor gathering at a festival ground, with a dense crowd of hundreds behind a front row of seated people on a striped mat. In the foreground, several saffron-robed sannyasis sit cross-legged, several with orange headcloths and rudraksha malas. A man in a white dhoti and shirt sits with palms joined, and a man in white clothes and a white head cloth sits among the saffron-robed group. A man at the far right in an orange robe and orange headwrap, with long dark hair and gold necklaces, sits with his hands clasped; he is a candidate for the page's named figure, shown here as a seated sannyasi. Two men in white shirts in the lower foreground sit with palms joined in prayer. Overhead, orange and yellow garlands hang from a decorated arch, and a green-and-white canopy stretches behind the crowd.

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