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A nighttime temple procession photographed from a close angle. Several men and women in plain white ritual clothing, some with white and red-bordered garments, stand in a crowd with hands raised in devotion, faces lifted upward. On the left, a man in white holds a striped cloth or bundle. Behind them, a palanquin or ratha with a gold-framed canopy and an ornate deity murti is visible, lit by warm lamps. The scene suggests a night procession during a temple festival.

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