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Outdoors in bright daylight, a procession moves along a crowded path under trees. In the centre, a man with a shaved head and a bare chest is wearing a saffron-orange garment, a heavy beaded and golden necklace, and rudraksha-style beads; he has an ochre shawl draped over the shoulders. Two men in white dhotis with gold borders and gold chains walk beside him, and a bald man in an ochre garment walks to the right. A uniformed man in a navy cap and a high-visibility yellow-green vest, with a lanyard, holds the central figure's hand to guide him. Behind them a large orange-and-yellow umbrella is raised over the procession, and many devotees, some in orange and red, fill the background near orange-painted structures and red flags.

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