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Outdoor procession in a dusty open ground beside a terracotta-red boundary wall. A large ornate ratha or palanquin with a colourful fringed canopy, golden finials, and hanging tassels is being pulled and pushed by devotees in white dhotis and white kurtas. Women in pink, yellow, cream and green saris walk alongside, some with hands folded in prayer. Red and orange flags are raised among the crowd, and a white signboard with a map stands by the wall under a clear blue sky. The seated figure on the chariot is not clearly visible, so no identification is made.

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