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Following their dip on the most auspicious day, newly purified sadhus, or holy men, return en masse to their camp for prayer and a pageant of ascetic fervor, including voluntary nudity, smearing of the body with ash and, for some, a flaunting of their lifelong refusal to cut their hair.

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