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A festival procession moves along a dirt road lined with coconut palms. At center, a golden ratha-style palanquin, heavily decorated with bright marigold and multicolored garlands, pompoms and tassels, carries a seated figure in a decorated seat beneath a golden umbrella. Men in white dhotis and white shirts, several with shaved heads and white markings, walk beside and push the chariot, and a man in a red-and-white cloth stands at its base. A red flag is held at right, and a yellow-and-white golden elephant-head ornament sits at the front of the chariot. On the left, an orange and white building stands beside a signboard about a banyan tree.

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