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Outdoor procession on a dusty road beside trees and a bamboo fence. A decorated vehicle draped with a white cloth edged in red and garlanded with yellow and orange marigolds leads the group. Above it, a white canopy and two ceremonial umbrellas in orange, green and white stripes display blue emblems and gold symbols. Several figures in saffron-orange robes stand on the decorated float, and a person in the foreground holds a long silver-topped staff. A woman in white in the front left smiles and claps, and others in white kurtas and saris walk along, with cars and onlookers behind. Roughly fifteen to twenty people are visible in the procession.

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