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Night outdoor festival at a stadium-style venue lit by floodlights, with a large crowd seated in tiers. In the foreground a seated figure with long dark hair, bare-chested and wearing a dark red-brown dhoti and a red-beaded rudraksha mala, holds a tall silver trident and sits on an ornate gold throne with lion-carved armrests and leopard-print cushions, under a floral-decorated canopy of red, white and orange garlands. A bare-chested attendant in white dhoti and an orange-red cloth stands nearby with hands folded; a woman in a white sari and gold-trimmed clothing stands beside, and devotees in white and orange sit before a brass tray of flowers and offerings. Several large monitors show the proceedings on the left.

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