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Outdoor temple procession in a crowded street in Tiruvannamalai. A decorated wooden chariot with a painted canopy, heavily garlanded with marigolds and flowers, dominates the upper right, carrying a deity murti under a red-and-white canopy. Seated on the chariot platform, a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with a green shawl and red mala sits beside a figure in white ritual cloth. Around them, men in white dhotis and saffron-orange cloths, and devotees with tilak and flower garlands, stand and sit among onlookers. A man in a red-and-white striped shirt and orange waist cloth stands at the chariot edge. A cameraman films from the left under a tree.

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