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Outdoor festival procession at a Jayanti Brahmotsavam celebration. A dense crowd of devotees, mostly men in white shirts and dhotis, with some in white T-shirts, walks along a dusty road under a bright sky. Several people raise their hands and smile; a woman in a white sari with a gold-bordered cloth walks at left. Orange and blue triangular flags and ornate umbrella-style canopies with embroidered red, orange and gold panels are carried high above the crowd, along with a brass kalasha-like pot. Colourful balloons decorate a yellow draped stage at the upper right, where more people in white watch. A man in a gold-toned jacket with a yellow scarf stands in the centre foreground; a young man at right has a white tilak on his forehead.

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