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A crowded street procession with many people in orange and saffron. In the foreground a man wears an orange turban and a tiger-striped orange-and-black garment, seen from behind. To the right a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a gold border and an orange shawl has orange tilak marks on his forehead. Other devotees with orange-smeared foreheads and orange turbans crowd around, some raising hands, and a drum is visible at lower left. Behind them, women in red and green saris watch, and a striped umbrella and blue wall appear at the top. No single figure is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance.

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