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Night procession at Adi Kailash with musicians leading a group of devotees along a concrete path under a partly built multi-storey structure. In front, men in white dhotis and white shirts play a drum held at the hip and a long wind instrument, while a second drummer marches in the centre. Behind them a red and gold ornate umbrella shelters a figure carrying a deity murti or ritual object draped with a garland, flanked by attendants in white. Many people in white dhotis and orange or saffron garments follow carrying red and orange flags on tall poles. Floodlights and a tree stand at the right edge.

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