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Night procession scene on a golden cart decorated with a large painted lion statue and a green deity figure. A man seated on a ceremonial seat on the cart wears a white and marigold garland, red-brown dhoti, and holds ritual rods. Beside him, a man in a maroon dhoti holds a coconut in a metal vessel aloft with both hands, and a man in orange-yellow garments stands at the right foreground with white ash markings on his bare shoulders. Several women in saffron and red sarees and men in orange and maroon clothing stand behind, some with hands folded in prayer. Possible a person candidate: the seated man has a garland and red-brown clothing, but no distinctive long hair or crown is visible, so identity is uncertain.

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