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A street procession in an Indian temple town with a crowd of devotees. In the centre-right, a smiling man in saffron-orange robes wears a long rudraksha mala and a gold ceremonial necklace, with a white bandage on one arm and red-and-white tilak on his forehead; the page suggests this may be a person, though his appearance alone is not conclusive. To the left, a man in saffron robes holds a tall garland of red, pink and white flowers on a staff, and other saffron-clad attendants walk alongside. A woman in a maroon sari stands with palms pressed together, a bare-chested man in white dhoti stands nearby, and a row of shaded stalls with striped awnings lines the street behind them.

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