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Outdoor procession scene on a grassy ground with a decorated wooden cart on the right. A tall deity murti under a fringed canopy is garlanded with red and yellow flowers and rests on a gold-toned mount, with a blue cloth draped below. A woman in a yellow sari holds a trident-tipped staff beside the cart. On the left, a figure in saffron/orange robes with a rudraksha mala stands with palms joined, facing the cart, while several women in white and pink saris stand with hands folded in prayer. A man in an orange shirt stands near the cart and a light-blue-clad woman and a child are among the devotees. A metal frame stands behind them and buildings and palm trees are in the distance. Without a confident identification of the saffron-robed figure, the scene reads as a devotional procession with ratha and deity murti.

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