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Outdoor procession on a dry, sunny day at a Kumbhamela event in Karnataka. In the right foreground, a man in an orange turban and orange robe, wearing a heavy gold-beaded necklace and a rudraksha mala, walks beside a young man in orange and white with a long dark hair. Behind them an older bearded sadhu in orange robes stands among devotees. A bare-chested priest in the left foreground holds a brass plate of offerings, and a white-clad older man holds a coconut wrapped with marigold and orange flower garlands. Above the crowd, a devotee carries a ceremonial pot topped with yellow and orange marigold garlands on his head. Several onlookers fill the background.

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