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A large outdoor gathering of devotees in orange and saffron robes seated on the ground under a white canopy. In the foreground, a bald man in orange-red robes with a gold necklace and rudraksha mala sits with a metal plate and small cups before him, next to a bearded sadhu with orange vertical markings on his forehead wearing orange clothes. A young boy in an orange kurta holds a smartphone, a woman in a maroon shawl sits beside the group, and a man in pink kurta sits at the right. A standing attendant in orange clothes with a flower garland is at the left. Behind them, hundreds of people in orange, saffron and pink turbans fill the tent.

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