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An outdoor festival procession in a dusty open field. Many devotees in white kurtas and orange-saffron stoles crowd together, with several people raising hands and smiling. Four large ceremonial parasols with multicolored striped canopies and silver-tipped poles rise above the crowd, and a silver staff is held in the foreground. Behind them a truck with loudspeaker stacks and a Velmurugan-related banner stands near a low boundary fence. A man with long swept-back hair and an orange stole stands center-right among the crowd, but his appearance is not distinctive enough to confirm his identity. Crowd density is high, with more than twenty people visible.

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