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A festival procession on an open street at a temple-like complex. A golden ornate palanquin or ratha is decorated with white and purple flower garlands and marigold strings, and topped by a decorated golden kalasha-style finial. Colourful embroidered parasols with tassels and bells shade the procession. Several devotees in white clothes walk around the palanquin, some holding its poles, while a bare-chested figure with white clothing and a red garland sits up on the palanquin. In the foreground, crowds of men and women in white kurtas and sarees, one woman wearing a red hair flower, watch and follow. Some onlookers wear yellow and white.

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