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A night-time ceremonial scene inside an ornate golden structure with gold pillars, strung bulbs and a golden arch above. Two seated deity murti figures sit on a raised golden peetha draped in red and maroon fabric, adorned with flower garlands and bright multicolored blossom festoons hanging from the columns. Green leaves decorate the canopy. Colourful painted cloth panels in blue, red, yellow and green, with bird and floral motifs, frame the sides. A golden figure of a standing attendant in the foreground holds a garland. No people are visible.

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A gilded golden canopy shrine decorated with multicoloured tassel garlands in red, green, blue, orange and white hangs between ornate gold pillars. Beneath it a man in an orange-brown robe and a patterned cone-shaped headdress lifts a metal kalasha or pot above a golden deity murti adorned with gold necklaces, floral garlands and a crown, while flames glow above. Printed borders with dove motifs frame the scene, and a flower-decorated altar sits below. Only the priest is a physical person, with partly visible figures behind him.2013-12-24December 02 20142014-12-02Night photograph of a richly decorated golden temple chariot (ratha) lit with string bulbs. Two metal murti figures stand under an arch in the shrine, one wearing a tall crown and the other a rounded hat with a tripundra marking; both are draped in jewelled garments and garlands of marigolds and multicoloured tassels hang from the pillars. No physical people are visible.2014-12-02December 24 20132013-12-24December 02 20142014-12-02December 02 20142014-12-02December 02 20142014-12-02November 22 20152015-11-22December 02 20142014-12-02February 27 20142014-02-27Night view of a golden ratha or palanquin decorated with long tassel garlands in red, orange, green, yellow and white hanging on both sides, with strings of electric bulbs along the canopy. Two ornately dressed deity murtis stand under a gilded arch with a green cloth backdrop, surrounded by floral garlands in pink, white and yellow. A gold-robed figure in the foreground is partly visible at the lower left, and a corner of a person in white clothing appears at the lower right. A festival procession setting.2014-12-02December 24 20132013-12-24