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A street procession in a small Indian town. Several large ceremonial umbrellas in red, green, orange and blue with gold embroidery and tasselled fringes, printed with DHYANAPEETAM, are held aloft over a white and red palanquin decorated with elephant and motif patterns and flower garlands. Devotees in white dhotis and saffron/orange shawls walk alongside. Onlookers watch from a multi-storey building balcony and the street. Two or three men in saffron/orange robes sit at the far right beneath an umbrella. a person's presence is not visibly confirmed by appearance.

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