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Outdoor offering scene on a bright day with palm trees and a concrete wall behind. In the foreground a carved watermelon, pineapple, bananas and other fruit sit on a table draped with orange cloth beside a golden kalasha and brass vessels. Devotees in white and yellow clothing carry silver trays of bananas, fruit and flower-decorated offerings in procession. A red, yellow and blue ceremonial umbrella with tasselled fringe is held over the offerings. A bald, bare-headed man in white stands at the left edge, and a woman in a white sari with a red shawl is at right. A large figure draped in saffron-orange cloth occupies the right edge.

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