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A crowded temple entrance procession in South India. Many devotees and officials in white shirts and dhotis press through a stone gateway with a blue door. A uniformed police officer in khaki stands center right. On the right, a bald man in saffron and orange robes wears a yellow-and-green flower garland and bare-chested ash markings, walking beside a woman in red and orange saris. A woman in orange sari with a rudraksha mala stands at center. A man on the left carries a woven basket on his head. Several people in white and orange clothing fill the foreground.

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