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Outdoor festival stage under a white tent with a painted forest backdrop. A golden ornate throne with a gold canopy strung with white flower garlands sits on a raised platform covered in blue cloth and scattered petals. Seated on the throne is a woman in an orange sari and red-orange shawl, holding a small object, flanked by a man in white kurta and a monk in saffron robes. Behind the platform, painted or statue deity figures in orange stand on rocky ledges. Devotees in white and saffron stand along red-and-white barricades, with flower garlands on the railing and a woman in a white sari in the foreground.

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