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Night procession at a Kumbh Mela style fair with orange-lit tents and strings of lights. A bald priest with a white vertical tilak and bare chest wears a gold necklace and a yellow dhoti with a green border, walking in front. Behind him a man bare-chested in a white dhoti carries a woven basket on his head, and white-clad attendants in white dhotis and shirts follow. A young attendant at right holds a long brass ceremonial staff. Torches burn in the background, and a decorated canopy and a figure on a palanquin-style float are visible above the crowd. No clear a person candidate is visible, so the procession participants are described by role only.

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