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A festival procession on a dirt road at Bidadi during the Jayanti Brahmotsavam celebrations. Drummers in blue and yellow costumes with yellow headbands play a large barrel drum and a pair of hand drums, leading the group. Behind them, a man in orange robes and a white head cloth holds a long pole, and several saffron-robed sadhus carry tall decorated umbrellas in red, yellow and green. Devotees in white dhotis and white shirts with neck garlands walk along, and a red-saried woman stands at the left edge holding a tray. Above them hangs a large canopy decorated with white and yellow flower garlands, orange and red cloth draped over a frame. Several people in white and saffron walk behind, with a small crowd and a bright sunny sky visible beyond.

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