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Two large decorated nandi (bull) mounts on wooden ratha-style platforms are shown in a temple street procession, each draped in garlands of yellow and white flowers with colourful embroidered canopies and fringed umbrellas above. A man in a beige shirt and dark trousers stands at the left platform, steadying it with a long pole, while a bare-chested man in white dhoti and a white-shirted man in a white dhoti and shawl stand near the right platform. Scaffolding and a brick building are behind, with a crowd of devotees along the edge of the frame.

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