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A street procession in a crowded market lane at dusk. A deity murti is carried on a decorated cart draped in flowers, with a white and red floral canopy overhead and a bare-chested man in a white dhoti leaning to adjust the figure. In front, two young boys wear yellow dhotis, one with an orange cloth over his shoulder and a sacred thread, and a girl with hair in a bun walks beside them. A woman in an orange-and-white outfit stands among onlookers. Garlands of white jasmine and red-yellow flowers hang in the foreground, and shops with signs line the street.

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