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Photograph of a festival pandal with large painted clay deity murtis dressed in bright yellow and red garlands. On the left, a multi-armed goddess with a trident stands on a lion, her red sari and yellow marigold garlands prominent. On the right, a yellow-clad goddess plays a veena beside a green-faced figure. In the lower right, a bare-chested man with a long swept-back hair, wearing a saffron shawl and a rudraksha mala with white flower garland, sits on a silver peetha cushioned with a striped orange throne cover. Offerings of marigolds and oil lamps sit before the murtis. The man is a candidate for a person, seated on the throne with distinctive adornments.