A tall wooden ritual pole, tapering upward with ringed copper-toned bands, rises from a carved base wrapped in white and red flower garlands and topped with a green leafy bundle. A man in reddish-brown dhoti-style clothing and a long red-and-white flower garland hauls the ropes that raise the pole against a bright sky, with palm fronds at right and a canopy edge at upper left. - Nithyanandapedia

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A tall wooden ritual pole, tapering upward with ringed copper-toned bands, rises from a carved base wrapped in white and red flower garlands and topped with a green leafy bundle. A man in reddish-brown dhoti-style clothing and a long red-and-white flower garland hauls the ropes that raise the pole against a bright sky, with palm fronds at right and a canopy edge at upper left.

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