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A night-time outdoor festival scene in front of an illuminated temple-style pavilion draped in white cloth and warm yellow light. Strings of garlands and red-and-white hangings decorate the front entrance, and a banner reads NITHYANANDESHWARI VASTHANAM. A large crowd of devotees stands and sits on green matting; a man in white dhoti and shirt walks in the foreground, and a figure in white dhoti with a red-bordered cloth stands at the right edge. A decorated palanquin or ratha with greenery is visible at the right. The pavilion appears to be a shrine or sanctum setting, possibly for a procession or darshan. Roughly fifty people are visible.

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