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A festival procession on a village road in daylight. A richly decorated flower-covered palanquin, its canopy and hanging tassels in orange, yellow, green and red, carries a seated figure in red and gold robes and a gold crown. Around it, crowds in white clothes and saffron-coloured sashes walk alongside, with many women in white saris and orange-red flags visible at the right edge. A man in white stands in the foreground with a raised hand, and a man in saffron robes walks near the palanquin's front. The seated figure has no clearly recognisable face at this distance, so identity is uncertain.

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