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Large outdoor crowd of devotees at a Kumbh-style procession, many in orange and saffron clothing, with tall orange and red flags on poles and an orange canopy overhead. Several sadhus with long matted hair and yellow-orange marigold garlands walk through the throng, one carrying an umbrella. Foreground placards show a bearded man with long curly hair and a red tilak, and a pink poster reads 'om namo narayanaya'. A white SUV parks at the right edge among the crowd.

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