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A photograph of an outdoor-covered temple courtyard during a festival procession. In the centre, a robed devotee in saffron-orange clothes holds a large colourful umbrella (chhatri) with red, green and yellow fringed tassels and embroidered panels. Nearby, a man in a white dhoti and shawl holds another umbrella on a pole, and several people in orange and white garments walk or sit under decorative hanging umbrellas and lanterns. A man in a blue shirt walks at right, and a man in an orange kurta stands beside a smaller umbrella at far right. Green leaves and a tree trunk frame the scene, with a speaker hanging from the roof. No figure is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance cues, and the visible people are attendants and devotees.

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