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A red tractor decorated for a procession travels along a tree-lined road, its front garlanded with white and yellow flower strings and banana leaves fixed to its sides. Above the tractor a golden canopy with a red and white fabric top shelters a seated figure in orange robes with white hair and beard, who appears to be the honoured guest. Around the vehicle, devotees in white shirts and trousers and orange garlands walk alongside, one holding an orange flag, and a man at left photographs the scene with a camera. A tractor number plate reads KA 42 T2116 with Kannada script. The scene reads as a padayatra procession.

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