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Night procession at a temple-style hall with a tiled floor and corrugated roof. Four saffron-robed men in the foreground carry tall ceremonial standards, two with yellow fringed canopies painted with flowers and a bird emblem, and one with a multicoloured fringed umbrella. Their chests are bare with rudraksha malas, white forehead tilaks and gold-yellow sashes on the orange cloth. Behind them devotees in white dhotis and orange robes stand among others in green and white.

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