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A festival procession on a dirt road beside a concrete wall. A decorated chariot with a flower-garlanded canopy, red and white umbrellas and a tiered structure is pulled forward by a line of men in white dhotis and shirts with red waist cloths and yellow shoulder cloths. Two men in saffron-orange garments walk among them, one with a crown-like headpiece and a beaded necklace. A man in white holds a silver pot near the chariot, and another in white reaches toward the line. Several onlookers in white and a woman in a sari stand at the sides, and a few more people are partly visible at the edges.

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