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A crowded tented gathering of saints in saffron and orange robes at the Kumbh Mela. A bald, bearded man in orange robes and a long mala stands at centre, draping an orange cloth; a man in a white patterned shirt and a man in a blue shirt stand at left. Seated in the foreground, bearded sadhus in orange eat from metal plates on low wooden stools, with steel tumblers and water bottles before them. At right, a person in a yellow dhoti and maroon top serves food from a steel bowl, while orange-clad monks stand and sit around the tent with a bamboo-thatched roof behind.

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