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Outdoor festival stage under a maroon tent during a ritual procession. At centre, a man in white dhoti with bare torso and ankle bells dances, swinging a bundle of green leaves while smoke rises near multiple white oil lamps with flames held on poles. Behind him, a decorated red and gold palanquin or throne is garlanded with marigolds. To the right, a smiling young man in saffron robes wears layered orange and white flower garlands and raises a hand in greeting. Nearby, saffron-clad attendants and men in white shirts and orange shawls stand around the stage. Orange and white banners and a red carpet frame the scene. Several people are visible, roughly six to twenty.

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