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Night procession on a street beneath a large tree. A bearded man with long swept-back hair sits on a golden-wheeled cart draped in orange cloth, garlanded with flower necklaces, wearing an orange-red robe. Behind him stands a large deity murti of Mahishasura Mardhini with a lion, a golden figure with raised arms, and a blue figure, with a shaven-headed man in an orange cloth at right. A cameraman in white filming from the left, an attendant in white dhoti with gold border and rudraksha mala at right, and a red umbrella and a parasol nearby. Decorated umbrellas and lamps line the background. Mentions of Mahishasura Mardhini alankara and Devi suggest the event; the visible scene shows a deity procession.

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