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Photograph of a procession on a palanquin-style ratha under a canopy with blue, red and gold fringe. A smiling man in a golden crown and rudraksha-style gold necklace, wearing an orange-brown robe and sitting on a yellow cloth scattered with rose petals, raises one hand in blessing while holding a silver staff. He wears a layered mala of red rose petals, orange-yellow marigolds and white jasmine garlands. A second man in an orange robe and long wooden beaded mala sits behind him at the right beside a silver kalasha-style finial. Currency notes and petals lie on the cloth at the front, and a red-and-white flower bundle rests at lower right.