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A shaved-headed man kneels on a pale floor performing a yoga breathing posture, with his right arm raised overhead and his hand at his nose. He wears a sleeveless white vest, a rudraksha mala with a small pendant, and loose beige harem-style trousers, and has a white vibhuti line and red bindi on his forehead. Behind him stand ornate gold-painted lion-shaped carts or palanquin frames with red and blue draped cloth and marigold garlands.

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