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Outdoor procession on sandy ground at a Tamil Nadu event. A man in the centre wears a white dhoti and a yellow shawl, with yellow and red flower garlands, and carries a lit oil lamp in a coconut-shell cup. Behind him a man in a white dhoti carries a similar lamp in a red-banded frame. Men in white shirts and white dhotis, some with orange sashes, carry coconut-shell lamps and hold a long pole. On the right, a bearded man with a green turban wears an orange-red cloth and holds a kalasha vessel. Green leaves and smoke rise from several lamps.

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