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A photograph of a festival scene at a flower-decorated outdoor platform. A person with long dark hair sits on an ornate gold throne with red cushions, wearing an orange robe and a red-and-white marigold garland, with bare feet resting on a red footstool. A gold-and-orange arch of flowers frames the throne, with yellow, red and white blossoms. Around the platform, shaven-headed men in white dhotis and white garments, some with pink and blue colour powder on their clothes, stand near a kalasha-style offering on the platform edge. A man in an orange robe and a red-and-white garland stands at right. Several people are in the crowd, and a woman in pink stands in the upper right.

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