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Night procession outdoors among palm trees, with a crowd of devotees walking around an ornate palanquin-style float carrying a deity murti. The float has a white and silver arched frame with painted panels. A man in a bare upper body with white dhoti raises a brass kalasha-like offering vessel with flowers on his head beneath a multicoloured umbrella with tassels and bird motifs. Other men and women in white shirts, saris and everyday clothes walk closely around, some holding umbrellas. A small signboard stands at right beside a red vehicle, and a temple shrine with a tiered roof is visible at left.

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October 06 20112011-10-06Night procession on a grassy field lit by torches and headlights. A golden illuminated palanquin-style ratha carries deity murtis under a red and gold canopy, pulled by a red tractor with a green canopy and a driver visible at the wheel. Orange parasols with fringed edges are held aloft at left, and a barefoot man in dark clothes carries a flaming torch while others in white dhotis, saffron and green garments walk alongside. A woman in an orange sari stands near the chariot, and devotees in white line the right edge.2016-09-01December 05 20112011-12-05February 17 20162016-02-17 +1 copiesNight procession photographed in darkness with a lit torch at left. A decorated deity murti sits within a golden arched frame draped with yellow and multicoloured flower garlands, carried on poles by several men in white clothes. Nearby a colourful striped umbrella is held aloft. Behind and beside the procession, people in white garments walk along, including a woman in a patterned salwar with a headscarf and a woman with a light-coloured top and long necklace. Whitish hair is visible at the right edge.2005-12-22Night procession at an ashram with a red tractor in the left foreground pulling a decorated cart. On the cart stands a deity murti in a gold arched frame, garlanded with red, yellow and white flower strands, under a striped red and yellow canopy. A white-clad priest in white dhoti sits beside it, with an oil lamp and plate of offerings. Devotees line the path on the right, several with palms pressed together; women wear white and red saris and a man wears a red t-shirt. Dark night background with lights of buildings.2011-12-12December 23 20062006-12-23 +1 copiesDecember 05 20112011-12-05Night procession on sandy ground with a golden palanquin-style chariot carrying a decorated deity murti, lit by bright floodlights and a green lamp. A man in white dhoti and shirt walks at the front near a bare-chested attendant swinging a flaming torch-like flame. Behind them, crowds of devotees in saffron, yellow, green, purple and white saris and white dhotis follow under dark umbrellas and a decorative canopy, with smoke drifting through the scene. A man in a blue shirt and white dhoti walks among the group.2016-11-05December 23 20062006-12-23Night procession at a temple-style event lit by overhead lamps. In the foreground, men in white dhotis with gold borders carry long ceremonial staffs. Two decorated processional vehicles with golden canopies and garlanded deity murti (one with a gold kalasha-like top, the other a gilded peetha canopy) are pulled forward, followed by devotees in white, orange and saffron clothing and a woman in a red sari at right. Green and white garlands and string lights decorate the scene. Figures of deities are visible on the carts; a single person in white near the right cart may be the presiding attendant. The crowd is visible on the roadway, with a tractor-type vehicle at right.2015-07-31Night procession with a deity murti carried on a palanquin decorated with a multicoloured arched halo of red, green, yellow and purple bands studded with round mirrored ornaments. Several men walk around it: a man in front wears an orange shawl over a white shirt, and a man at right in a white kurta and dark-framed glasses holds his hands together in front of him. Men in white and orange shawls surround the palanquin, and tall gold-coloured torch stands and a red fringed umbrella frame the scene.2006-12-23