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A decorated silver palanquin procession at night. Inside an ornate gilded canopy, a seated figure in a golden-orange and green draped cloth is almost entirely covered by thick garlands of white jasmine, red and pink flowers and marigolds. Hanging festoons of white flowers and orange marigold strands frame the palanquin, with a red and gold canopy overhead and a red-and-green fabric banner on the left. Pink roses sit in the lower right corner. Small golden lights glow along the carved silver base. No people are clearly visible; the scene is a ratha/palanquin procession of a religious figure, not a person-centred ceremony.

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