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Night procession under large banyan trees. Several men in saffron-orange dhotis and bare upper bodies, with white tilak and rudraksha malas, carry a silver palanquin-style platform bearing a decorated deity murti (utsava murti) draped in garlands of marigolds and red and yellow flowers. Two men in front hold up a turquoise and yellow cloth draped on poles. Behind them, devotees in orange and a man in a dark maroon kurta and olive trousers walk; a figure in white dhoti with grey hair stands at right with hands folded in namaskar. Strings of lights glow through the trees, and the crowd in the background is dark and partly visible.

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