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Outdoor cremation ceremony on open grass in front of a low hill range under a pale sky. In the left foreground a man with long, swept-back dark hair and a bare chest wears an orange-saffron dhoti and shawl, holding a white plate or bowl aloft toward a large pile of stacked wood logs in the centre. Behind the pyre, a group of people sit on the grass and on cloth mats, many in white clothing, some in orange, with one man in white bending over items on a mat at the right. Parked buses, cars and motorcycles and orange flags stand in the background, with a few more people seated among them. The man's cues of long hair and saffron clothing are consistent with the page's reference to Swamiji, so this is probable, though his face is not clear enough to confirm identity. Photo taken at a KAILASA-associated cremation site.

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