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A photograph of a group of young men bathing in a river, standing waist-deep in greenish water and smiling at the camera. Several are shirtless or bare-chested, and one stands on the sandy bank at right, with a bicycle leaning nearby. Splashes of water rise at the right. Behind them are lush green trees, palm trees, a stone embankment at left, and a reddish-brown dirt slope under a partly cloudy sky.

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A group of young men in a river splash joyfully, arms raised, bare-chested or in wet clothes, with water spraying around them. Green trees, palms and a red-earth bank line the shore, with a bicycle parked on the bank at right and a few distant figures near the trees. No a person candidate is visible.2005-04-09A photograph of a riverside scene in bright daylight with sunlight glinting on shallow water over rocks. A man with long dark hair and a beard sits on a rock at the water's edge, legs in the stream, wearing a white kurta-style garment with a reddish-brown cloth around his waist. To the left, a bearded man in an orange shawl and white dhoti stands on the bank, and another man in white stands beside him. A shirtless bearded man in a white dhoti stands in the water further back. Green bushes, palm trees and a utility pole fill the background, with a few more white-clad figures on the far bank.2005-04-09May 13 20142014-05-13May 18 20152015-05-18A photograph of men bathing in a broad, greenish river at a holy confluence. Roughly a dozen shirtless or lightly clothed men swim, dip and wade across the rippling water, some with hands raised to their heads, some splashing. The scene is bright and open, with no temple, a person or ritual objects visible.2007-02-02June 04 20162016-06-04February 02 20072007-02-02June 04 20162016-06-04A photograph of men bathing in a river, with water splashing up around them. Several men in the foreground are waist-deep in the murky water, mostly bare-chested and wearing shorts or white vests, some with rudraksha-style beads or thin cords around their necks, one raising his hands to his face. Behind them, a crowd of shirtless and shorts-clad men stands on the bank, including a man in a red shirt and another in a blue shirt, and one man in a striped cloth wrap. No clearly identifiable ceremonial figure is visible in the scene.2014-07-27June 02 20162016-06-02A smiling man with long dark hair, wearing a draped maroon-red cloth, stands waist-deep in a river, hands resting on the water. Behind him, a crowd of people stand and wade in the water, several in saffron-orange and white clothing, some bare-chested, some with rudraksha malas. Along the riverbank are rocks, trees, low houses and a concrete bridge, with a dusky sky overhead. The scene suggests a river bathing ritual at sunset.2016-06-02 +2 copiesJune 02 20162016-06-02