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Outdoor Kumbh Mela setting under a tent canopy with thatched shelter behind. Seated saffron-robed sadhus sit on low wooden stools before brass thalis of food with small steel bowls, eating a meal. A bald man in saffron robes and a rudraksha mala stands at center holding out an orange cloth. Other saffron-clad sadhus, a man in pink kurta, and police in khaki stand nearby, with a green rope barrier and water bottles on the yellow ground. An orange-clad figure with a long grey beard sits at right. The scene reads as a bandara meal for sadhus. Several people are visible, some partially, so the count falls in the 6-20 range.

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