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Night photograph of a festival procession at a temple town street. Central subject is a silver-plated palanquin or vahana carrying a golden deity murti, decorated with a dense arch of yellow, white, pink and red garland flowers and green leaves. A large green and red fringed canopy with pink lotus-style painting shades the murti. A bare-chested man with a rudraksha mala and glasses leans over the palanquin base. To the left, a man in a beige shirt grips a long pole. To the right, a standing man in white dhoti and shirt with a green waist cloth and sacred thread watches. Smoke or incense drifts at right. Several seated and standing onlookers fill the foreground, and a shop sign with Tamil script is visible at right.

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