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A night procession scene in which a saffron-robed priest with a light grey turban stands on a decorated cart, performing aarti with a lit lamp before a deity murti adorned with garlands of orange and yellow flowers. The cart canopy is painted with bright blue dove motifs, floral patterns and red, yellow and green borders. Offerings of bananas, fruits and brass vessels sit on the platform. Around the cart, devotees with palms pressed together, several women in saffron and yellow saris and men in white kurtas, stand in a row, while a few men in white and red kurtas watch from the left. Approximately twenty people are visible.

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Night-time photo inside a covered open hall of a temple-like space. At centre, a priest in orange robe stands behind a decorated wooden cart with a colourful canopy of red, blue, yellow and white panels and orange tassels, holding a lit lamp above a deity murti in a blue garment with a floral garland. Offerings, a kalasha-like vessel and a white fan sit on the cart. Around it, people with palms pressed together in namaste, including men in white dhoti and women in white or orange saris, watch in prayer. Orange pennant strings hang overhead. A shaved-headed man in white kurta with a rudraksha mala stands at left, and smoke or haze drifts through the dim space. Ritual worship of a cart-mounted deity.2010-11-19Night photo of a decorated ratha-style palanquin under a open-sided pavilion hung with colourful festoons and tassels. Inside the shrine a deity murti is garlanded with flowers and dressed in a blue cloth. A man in an orange cloth holds up a lamp or aarti flame before the murti. 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