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A photograph of a river ritual on the Ganga at Varanasi. Three men stand waist-deep in greenish water. The man on the left, with a long reddish-maroon cloth wrapped at the waist and a rudraksha-style bead necklace, bends forward and supports a shaved-headed man in white dhoti and shirt with gold-bordered cloth. A third man in white shirt and maroon lower cloth kneels in the water on the right, steadying the initiate. A white-clad figure stands on the stone steps at left, and a blue boat with lettering is visible at top. Water splashes around the group during the dip.

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