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Night photograph of a large illuminated Durga murti in Mahishasura Mardini form, with a white-draped multi-armed goddess standing above a demon figure, lit warmly with white and orange light. Dense crowd of devotees in the foreground, many with their backs or sides toward the camera, some in white clothes. A yellow umbrella and a decorated fan-shaped standard sit at the edges. Garlands hang from the deity's base. Dark foliage frames the scene at left, and a lit arch with a second figure appears at right. No clearly identifiable a person appears in the frame.

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