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Night photograph of a festival procession. A man with long dark hair and a trimmed beard sits centrally on a silver-decorated palanquin or ratha, draped with red and pink fabric and hanging tassels in red, orange, blue and green. He wears a crown-like headpiece, layered gold necklaces and a pink garland, with bare arms bearing gold armlets and a reddish-orange cloth at the waist, and holds a sword or staff. Peacock feathers and gold leaves decorate the canopy above. Another person in orange and red clothing with a shaved head is partly visible at the left edge, and dark silhouettes of other figures fill the foreground. The figure's identity is an appearance-based candidate: Swamiji (probable), seated in a decorated palanquin with ceremonial gold necklaces, a crown and a sword, in procession.

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