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Outdoor street procession in front of a dark red compound wall bearing a sign reading Nithyananda Peetham, Tiruvannamalai Aadheenam. Two large decorated fan-shaped ceremonial parasols with red, blue and yellow ornaments stand at the upper left, and pink and white umbrellas are raised behind the crowd. Devotees in saffron and orange robes press close, many with hands folded in namaskar. A bare-chested man with long dark hair and rudraksha beads, wearing an orange cloth, stands in the foreground, while a man in a white dhoti pours or offers from a vessel with a flame at its base beside a large garland of yellow, white and red flowers held up to the procession figure. Ritual oil lamps and fire are visible among the crowd.

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