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Night photo of a street procession at a temple festival. In the foreground, a man in orange cloth lies prostrate on the road, face down, in full-length prostration. Around him stand a crowd of men in white dhotis and shirts, some wearing rosette badges on their chests, with a few in cream or pale shirts; one man in a green-blue lungi stands among them. A man in an orange shawl and rudraksha-style beads stands at the left edge watching. Behind them a decorated temple vehicle is hung with yellow, red and white garlands and strings of lights, with a lit illuminated emblem at its top. Scattered paper lies on the road.

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