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Evening meal (annadan-style seating) in a large open tent with a green floor mat and rows of seated saffron-clad sadhus and devotees eating from metal thalis and steel plates set on low wooden tables. In the centre-right, a man with a long dark beard wears a rust-red robe and a white flower garland, beside a figure with a tall dark-red turban and a white flower garland, smiling. Another seated person in an orange hood and orange robe with a jasmine garland sits in the foreground. On the left, a bald man in glasses and a light green shirt leans in toward the row, gesturing. A young man in a yellow-orange kurta walks through on the right. Decorative flags and colourful rangoli-style patterns decorate the tent walls, and string lights hang overhead. About thirty people are visible.

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