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A large crowd of men sits and stands under a colourful striped canopy at an outdoor gathering in front of a pale pink colonnaded building with wooden doors. In the foreground, rows of seated monks in saffron and orange robes sit on blue plastic chairs. A bearded man in white dhoti and white shirt sits in the centre. A monk with a shaved head and an orange shawl sits on a chair in the middle, next to a monk wearing a white head cloth. On the right, a monk in an orange robe with a rudraksha mala and a monk in white with a pink sash sit together. Others wear orange turbans and white head cloths. A yellow banner with Kannada text hangs on a pole above the crowd. Many people wear white and orange clothing and stand at the back. Several people are in the back row near a yellow pole.

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