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Night photograph of a floral-decorated boat-shaped float (ratha-like vessel) on a lit water tank at a temple festival. The float is covered in tiered garlands of marigolds and white flowers in yellow, orange, purple and green, with a tall decorated canopy on top and a deity murti under a flowered awning. Two men in orange cloths stand waist-deep in the water beside the float, one at left with bare chest and one at right guiding it. Hundreds of seated devotees in white and colourful clothes fill stone steps on the right and background, with bright floodlights overhead.

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