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A photograph of a dirt road lined with trees and a white boundary wall, with a crowd of devotees walking in a procession away from the camera. Many men wear white shirts and white dhotis, while women wear colourful saris in orange, yellow, blue and cream, and one elderly woman on the right wears a purple sari with a red border and carries a teal bag. A child in a grey dress walks among the women in the centre. Behind them stand palm trees, a red-roofed building and a tall billboard with bamboo supports and string decorations. The group appears to be on a pada yatra.

A dusty dirt road lined with palm and leafy trees runs through an ashram site during an outdoor procession. Many people in white clothing walk along it, with men in white shirts and dhotis, women in white saris and one woman in orange. A young child in white walks in the middle of the group. Foreground men in white polo shirts with lanyards stand near the camera. Strings of orange and white festive bunting and blue-and-white flags decorate the route, with a tent and large blank signboard nearby. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance.

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Outdoor photograph of a crowd walking along a dusty dirt path through a rural compound. In the foreground, a line of men in white dhotis and white shirts walks toward the camera; one wears a blue cap and another carries a white cloth over his shoulder. Behind them, more people in white and a few women in colourful saris, including one in gold and another in blue, move along the path. A thatched-roof shed, white-walled buildings, a parked white van and a motorcycle stand to the left, with trees and a blue sky above. A white-painted stone border and a small sapling appear at the lower right.

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A large outdoor gathering on a dry, grassy open ground at a rural ashram site. Many devotees, mostly men and women dressed in white kurtas, dhotis and white saris, stand and sit in crowds. Some women wear green, pink and grey saris, and a child in pink stands among them. Several people sit on the ground at left. Behind the crowd are long tented pavilions with red-and-white and blue striped awnings and banners, and tall trees and a cloudy sky fill the background. No individual can be clearly identified as the a person from this distance.

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Outdoor photo of a dusty open ground at a large gathering, with many devotees in white dhotis, white shirts and white saris moving about. Several people sit on the grass near the foreground, and a man in a white shirt and dhoti sits cross-legged at centre-right. Drums are visible on the left, and a row of tents with red, orange and blue fabric and marigold-style decorations stands along the right side under overcast sky. A tall tree stands in the middle distance. The scene shows a festival-style crowd with many people in traditional white attire. The count of visible people is well above one hundred but not confidently above a single figure set; visible individuals number roughly thirty to fifty.

A group of about a dozen people walks along a dirt path beside green trees and bushes under a bright sky, apparently on a pilgrimage walk. In the centre, a man in a saffron-orange robe walks barefoot, and beside him another saffron-robed person follows. Most others wear white dhotis and shirts or white saris, with a woman in a pink-bordered sari and a woman in a green-bordered white sari in front. Two men on the right wear yellow shawls over white clothes and rudraksha-style beads, and an older man in white walks at the front left. The text overlay identifies the photograph as belonging to the Nithyanandapedia archive.

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