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A dusk procession in a mountain valley at Gangotri, with a silver-and-gold deity murti carried on a ceremonial palanquin under a large dark canopy edged with silver fringe and white feather plumes. Crowds of devotees wear orange caps and orange shawls. In the foreground a man with long dark hair and an orange shawl walks at the front of the crowd, shadowed and partly silhouetted against the mountains. Strings of silver tinsel and colourful circular fans decorate the route.

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