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Outdoor procession beside a red stone wall with a striped canopy overhead. At the centre, a smiling man with long dark hair wears a maroon robe with yellow borders, a thick beaded necklace, and carries a tall wooden staff holding the canopy; he is the Swamiji (probable) by appearance cues of long swept hair, ornate beaded adornment and saffron-toned robes, shown in procession. Around him, saffron and maroon-robed sannyasis wear yellow turbans and rudraksha malas. A man in white kurta and white dhoti with a beaded necklace carries a red cloth bundle. A bare-chested elder with a white beard wears a white dhoti and gold ornaments. Several onlookers in white shirts stand in the background. Sand underfoot.

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