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Several devotees sit in a row on a low concrete ledge beside a large tree trunk during a pada-yatra rest stop. An elderly man on the left in a white shirt and white dhoti, with a rudraksha mala and grey-blue cloth over his shoulder, holds a small orange flag. Beside him a man in white with spectacles holds a bamboo staff. A woman in a white sari with an orange border sits next to him, and more men in white with lanyards sit further along. Orange-clad figures appear at the left edge. Sandals lie on the dirt ground in front of the ledge, and a walled shrine with carved grille is visible behind.

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