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Night procession on an ornate golden palanquin-style vehicle decorated with garlands in white, purple and magenta, hanging gold-tasseled ornaments and an orange and teal canopy umbrella. A man seated centrally on the vehicle wears a red and white garland, a gold necklace and a long dark hair, with white markings on his forehead and a golden armlet, sitting on a cushioned seat. Beside the vehicle, a bald man in white clothes with white forehead markings stands, and a man in an orange-saffron cloth with gold chains and white markings on his face folds his hands in namaskar. A young man with a painted face is at the lower right. Visible people number about five.

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