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A photograph of a gilded ornamental ratha, a golden open-sided chariot-style canopy mounted on a vehicle, parked on a roadside median beside a busy street in Coimbatore. Ornate carved golden pillars and a decorated canopy frame two seated deity murti figures draped in red and purple cloth. One white-clad man stands near the left edge of the ratha, and a figure in a dark shirt sits in the driver's cab. Pink oleander bushes line the median, with multi-storey buildings, electric poles and cables behind. A tall, decorated tower of a kind visible behind the vehicle appears on the right, next to a yellow signboard advertising auto care. The scene suggests a procession vehicle during a yatra.

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