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Night procession with a decorated wooden ratha or palanquin lit by string lights and marigold garlands, topped by a golden kalasha-style finial and a red-and-yellow fringed canopy. Several men in saffron and maroon dhotis carry and steady the palanquin poles from the front. Around it, a large crowd of devotees walks: women in white and cream saris with red borders, a woman in orange, a young girl in pink, and men in white shirts. A truck with lit cabin lights passes behind.

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