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A photograph taken through the ornate carved wooden frame of a decorated ratha, seen from inside the chariot. Its golden carved pillars, lion-like wooden carvings and a white and gold cloth draped over the wood frame the view. Outside, a crowd of devotees walks along a dirt path toward green trees, several women in saffron and orange saris and men and women in white clothes. A yellow vehicle and a colourful striped canopy appear in the background, and a faint smoke haze rises. The chariot is the foreground subject.

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