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A night procession photographed at close range. Several men in white shirts and white trousers crowd together, shoulders pressed against a wooden chariot frame, pulling or carrying it forward. Behind them, a decorated ratha is framed by a large arch of red, yellow, green and maroon garlands with silver tinsel edging. Inside the arch stand two deity murti figures adorned with gold crowns, jewelry and white flower garlands. Two men on the left hold lit oil lamps in red holders above the crowd. Only the men in white and the lamp-bearers are physical people; the deity figures are statues. No one is clearly identifiable as a person in this image.

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