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Night photograph of a temple-style procession or ritual. Two young men in plain white dhotis with gold borders and bare upper bodies stand on the left. One holds a large white feathered fan (chamara) raised toward a deity murti on the right, while the other rests a hand on the cart's edge. The murti is adorned with a garland of white, yellow, red and green flowers, a gold crown and a blue band, and sits in a gilded arched shrine with green drapery beneath an orange-and-blue canopy. A golden bull (nandi) forms the base of the palanquin, and rudraksha malas hang from the attendants' necks.

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