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Outdoor procession on a wet path lined with palm trees under bright sunlight, with a decorated chariot or palanquin with red and gold canopy in the background. A central older man with white hair and glasses, wearing a white dhoti and white shirt with a light shawl, walks barefoot through the water-soaked path, flanked by a crowd of devotees in white clothes and saffron/orange shawls. Drummers in the lower right play drums, and tall orange flags and white flags with a blue emblem line the sides. Many people are visible, numbering over fifty.

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