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Night photograph of an illuminated temple procession with a crowd in the foreground. A large ornate wooden chariot, decorated with gilded carvings and lit by string lights, stands at left, while a silver-and-colourful elephant-shaped vehicle with a large embroidered canopy stands at right. Several men in white dhotis and orange cloth move around the carts; one bare-chested man in orange garments and a man in a white shirt stand near the elephant-form carriage. Onlookers are silhouetted in the dark foreground.

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