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Outdoor procession on a wide paved road with crowds lining the route. A decorated elephant with painted white patterns on its face and trunk carries a rider in orange, under a multicolored umbrella, holding a framed portrait on a red-draped howdah. Nearby, a man in white kurta walks with hands raised in front of saffron-clad sadhus, one holding a staff. Banners and hoardings line the road, and a man in orange with a drum walks in the crowd. a person is the man in the white kurta with long, swept-back hair walking at the front of the procession, visibly wearing white ritual dress with long hair.

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