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Night procession on a dirt road with several people in orange and saffron garments. In the foreground, a young man in a white dhoti with gold border and rudraksha mala plays a long curved brass horn raised overhead, while a companion in orange with gold-edged cloth plays a horn beside him, and a player on the left holds a long brass horn with a lit torch. Behind them, orange-robed drummers and devotees walk, and a decorated ratha with a golden canopy and an ornate deity murti moves in the background, with flaming torches and strings of lights glowing in the dark.

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