A carved dark wooden palanquin or ceremonial litter with a curved canopy, decorated with white jasmine garlands and orange marigold festoons, draped with pink and white cloth. Empty, with no people visible; it sits on a woven mat in a plain whitewashed room with an orange curtain at the window. - Nithyanandapedia

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A carved dark wooden palanquin or ceremonial litter with a curved canopy, decorated with white jasmine garlands and orange marigold festoons, draped with pink and white cloth. Empty, with no people visible; it sits on a woven mat in a plain whitewashed room with an orange curtain at the window.

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