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Photograph of a Dasara celebration stage with a large orange backdrop showing a smiling man in an orange turban beside the Kannada word ದಸರಾ (Dasara) and a deity figure with a crown. A central seated figure in saffron-orange robes and an orange turban sits on an ornate gold throne with an umbrella above, wearing an orange-beaded mala. Around him devotees in white dhotis and colourful saris stand close, a man in a blue shirt and dark trousers greets him, and a woman in a black shawl stands at left. Rows of small metal oil lamps fill the foreground carpet, and a decorated gold palanquin with garlands sits at right beside a deity figure.