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Outdoor evening procession at dusk in front of bamboo and a stone building. A long line of people stands on gravel facing left. Two decorated parasols with embroidered red, gold and multicoloured canopies are held aloft, and a man in white holds a lit torch or oil lamp. Foreground figures include a bare-chested man in a saffron-orange dhoti with a red border, several children and young girls in orange and gold silk, men in white kurta-dhotis, women in white sarees and salwar, and a woman in a pink saree. Adults in white and grey shirts stand at the right, and a man at the far left wears an orange garment. The scene reads as a ritual procession or ceremonial line, not a specific identified event.

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