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Night procession on a road beside a small orange-walled dispensary building with a green directional sign. On a golden wooden cart, a seated priest in an orange-saffron dhoti and an ornate gold-and-white headdress holds a lit oil lamp aloft before a decorated deity murti under a garlanded canopy of yellow, red, green and white flowers, with a red cloth backdrop. Offerings of fruit, sweets and small dishes are arranged on the cart. Around it, a man in white and a bald man in white hold palms together in prayer, a woman in a patterned top with light hair does the same, and a man in a striped shirt holds a flaming torch. A man in a striped shirt in the foreground photographs the scene, and a younger man in a white dhoti holds a tray of fruit. Roughly eight people are visible.

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