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Outdoor procession on a garden path lined with green shrubs, flowering plants and trees. A man in an orange robe with a red-and-gold headdress walks in front, with a beaded necklace and a sacred thread at the chest. Behind him, a figure in an orange robe with a white and red flower garland and a red tilak on the forehead walks under a red and gold parasol held by a young man in white dhoti and a yellow shawl, who also has a tilak. Other attendants in white and yellow and orange-robed figures follow, some holding poles. Kolam patterns decorate the path.

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