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Night procession at a temple-style festival. Centre: an ornate, multicoloured canopy palanquin with peacock-and-floral embroidered panels and gold fringe shelters a deity murti decorated with white and red flower garlands and a golden halo. Several men stand around the palanquin: a bare-chested man in saffron-orange dhoti with gold borders and a rudraksha-style neck mala, a man in pinkish-red cloth with white forehead marks, and a bare-chested man in white dhoti with a red waist cloth. Some have white ash marks on their faces and bodies. A woman in a purple sari stands at right, and more people stand in the dark background. A rope is tied along the palanquin.

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