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Tradition says
After the bath the deities are dressed in elephant headgear as Gajabesha or Hatibesha, representing Ganesh.
Historians say
The bathing platform to which the deities are brought in procession from the sanctum for Snana Yatra, where they are bathed with 108 pots of water drawn from the northern well.