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Outdoor photo of a ceremony under a large yellow umbrella with multicolour tassels, held over a life-size portrait-style figure with a bearded face, orange turban and gold necklace, garlanded with red and yellow flower garlands. Around it, several people in saffron and orange robes stand with bare upper bodies marked with white ash; one woman in deep orange sari and a rudraksha-style necklace offers garlands, another woman in orange holds a bowl or plate, and a man on the right in white dhoti with gold border holds a small book. A seated man in white on the left watches. Green tree leaves frame the top, with a metal structure and palms behind. This appears to be a Dwajarohanam-related procession, with the central figure a statue or printed image rather than a living person.

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