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Night photograph of an outdoor festival stage in front of a tiered, stepped shrine covered with rows of seated and standing deity murtis, many draped in yellow and green marigold garlands. A decorated canopy with illuminated lights crowns the top tier, with a larger central figure. Three large bronze vessels sit on a striped cloth-covered platform in the foreground, beside an ornate silver palanquin or procession vehicle at left. A figure in red-and-white ceremonial dress stands with hands folded at the centre of the platform. At lower right, a bare-chested man in an orange cloth photographs the scene beside another person in orange, with trees and a red wall behind. Four or five people are visible, all partially, so the count is 2-5.

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