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A large crowd of devotees fills a open-sided thatched pavilion with bamboo posts and a palm-thatch roof, gathered on a red-earth ground outside village houses. Most men wear white dhotis and white shirts, while women wear sarees in pink, green, and orange tones; a woman in a green-and-cream saree stands near the center. Several people hold long bamboo poles across the crowd, and a man in an orange cap stands at the lower left. Banana trees and palms surround the pale blue and white houses in the background. No clearly identifiable figure is visibly distinguished from the others, so the presence of the a person cannot be confirmed from appearance.

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