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Night photograph of a procession. A man in a dark red-maroon robe with a beaded rudraksha-style mala and a vertical orange tilak on his forehead holds a large polished silver trident (trishul) upright with his right hand. He stands on a silver-framed platform or palanquin with ornate repousse panels. Behind him a red and white striped pole rises at left. In the foreground lower left, a younger shaven-headed man in a bare-shouldered saffron-toned cloth looks on, and other people are partly visible at the lower edge. The background is dark.

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