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A street procession on a city road during Arudra Darshan, with a decorated wooden chariot draped in orange-yellow canopy fabric and red and blue banners. On the chariot, two deity murtis stand adorned with yellow and red flower garlands; one is a figure in white and pink cloth on a green-and-gold base, the other a red-clad figure. Shirtless men in white dhotis pull the chariot ropes, while a man in a maroon shirt and green lungi and another in a yellow shirt walk alongside. Shop signs above read Meenakshi Metal and Maragatha Meenakshi. Several onlookers stand in the foreground, including a person with dark hair seen from behind.

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