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Night photograph of a festival procession. A golden ratha-style palanquin, decorated with garlands of white, pink and purple flowers and hanging tassels in green, yellow and pink, is lit by a lamp at its top. A person in orange-red clothing with a white forehead mark sits in the palanquin, holding its railing. Below, a bald priest with a white-marked body raises a flaming oil lamp toward the palanquin, while a robed attendant in orange stands with hands folded in front of a kalasha-like offering. Devotees in orange and white clothes watch and join their palms. An orange and blue canopy umbrella stands above the palanquin, and an orange-clothed figure with a mala necklace raises hands in greeting beside it. Appearance-based candidate in the palanquin: a person, identified only by his orange robes, forehead mark and seated role in a procession.

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