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A smiling man with long dark hair, a red tilak on his forehead and a short beard sits on a blue plinth in front of a large painted festival figure of a lion-maned deity. He wears a rust-orange wrap, multiple rudraksha malas, bead bracelets, and a garland of white flowers, yellow marigolds and red apple-like fruit. He holds an ornate silver staff with a carved lion-head top in his right hand, and a second silver staff rests at left. Behind him are a colourful painted demon-face mask, sequined fabric and a dark buffalo head. Overlaid credit text reads pedia.org. The figure is on a festival float or ratha-style display at night