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Night procession at an ashram with a red tractor on the left pulling a gold-trimmed flatbed cart. On the cart, a large decorated deity murti of Mahishasura Mardhini, a multi-armed goddess in orange and red with a white and red arch behind her, stands above a figure in a red garment with garlands. Several men in white dhotis and white shawls walk alongside; the man in front right holds a dark umbrella, wears a rudraksha mala, and has a gold-striped white cloth. Another figure in a red cloth walks beside the cart. The cart is lit by night, with a dark background of trees.

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