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Outdoor procession under a metal-roofed shelter at dusk, with palm trees and red pennant flags behind. Center: an ornate gold palanquin-style ratha or vahana, heavily garlanded with white jasmine and red flower strings, topped by a golden crown finial and hanging tassels in green, pink, red and yellow. A deity murti sits inside the canopy, adorned with garlands. A large yellow fringed parasol shades the ratha on the left. Devotees stand around it, some in white dhotis and shirts, others in saffron-coloured and white clothing, and women in white and colourful saris and salwar; several have their hands folded in namaskar. Decorated colourful pillars with patterned panels stand at the right edge, and an orange carpet lies beneath the ratha.

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