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A photograph of a festival procession in which a long-haired figure in saffron-orange robes and a red bindi sits under a richly decorated canopy on a ratha-style palanquin. The canopy pillars are painted in red, yellow, blue and green with white dove motifs and garlanded with white, yellow and red flower strands. The seated figure smiles and raises a white ceremonial fly-whisk, with a golden staff resting at the lower right. Blurred onlookers in the foreground and a white tent frame appear beside the vehicle.

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December 29 20092009-12-29A smiling figure sits on an ornate golden palanquin-style throne on a procession vehicle, decorated with colourful embroidered banners in red, orange, green, yellow and blue, some bearing white bird motifs. The seated person wears an orange saffron garment, long layered white and red-tipped flower garlands with gold beads, and a red tilak mark on the forehead. Long dark hair falls past the shoulders. He holds a ceremonial sword with a white-and-gold hilt in one hand and a gold-topped staff in the other. Marigold and orange flower garlands hang from the canopy. A Swamiji (probable) figure in the procession, identified by saffron robes, swept-back long hair, ornate gold-and-garland regalia and a ceremonial sword, seated on the throne, depicted as the procession's central figure. Several arms of onlookers are visible at the left edge.2009-12-29December 29 20092009-12-29A smiling man in saffron-orange robes sits on an ornate golden throne decorated with yellow, orange and red marigold garlands and tasselled red and green fringe. He wears a red-and-white flower garland around his neck, a red bindi, and long swept-back dark hair, and he holds a golden sceptre in one hand and a sword in the other. Colourful decorated banners with bird motifs frame the scene, and blurred heads of onlookers and a white-plumed ceremonial figure appear in the foreground. a person appears in person seated in procession-style ceremonial regalia.2009-12-29December 29 20092009-12-29December 29 20092009-12-29December 29 20092009-12-29December 29 20092009-12-29December 29 20092009-12-29December 29 20092009-12-29December 29 20092009-12-29A smiling man with long dark hair and a red bindi sits on a golden throne framed by marigold and yellow-orange flower garlands and a sacred deity murti above him. He wears saffron-orange robes, a long white and red flower garland, and a gold-tipped scepter in one hand while raising a white chowri-like fan in the other. Festive colourful banners with dove motifs flank the throne, and the bottom edge shows several heads of onlookers, including a man with a red tilak. a person seated on the peetha during a festival procession setting, with distinctive saffron robes, flower garlands and ceremonial objects as cues.2009-12-29