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A man with long dark hair and a red forehead mark stands barefoot on a dirt ground, wearing a saffron-orange dhoti and shawl with gold borders and a heavy gold beaded necklace with a pendant. He holds a lit oil lamp in one hand and a silver handbell in the other, beside a carved wooden peetha with a floral mandala. Behind a bamboo fence, two women in white saris watch, and orange flags fly among trees. A stray dog stands nearby. A small bowl sits at the lower right. Appearance-based label: a person, identified by long swept hair, saffron clothing, rudraksha-style gold necklace and ceremonial lamp and bell worship, in an inauguration setting.

April 19 2008

Outdoor stage at a Dasara celebration. A man with long swept-back dark hair, wearing an orange draped garment, a gold bead necklace and a gold bangle, stands barefoot on an orange-draped platform and points upward with one hand. Beside him is an ornate gold-leaf chair with a maroon cushion. Behind him a white-clad person holds a camera on a tripod, a pit with pink powder sits to the right, and palm trees, orange pennants and a coconut-leaf garland frame the scene. Swamiji (probable): long swept-back hair and orange clothing with gold beads suggest the Swamiji candidate, shown in person, speaking from the stage.

A man in an orange saffron garment with bare chest and a heavy gold ceremonial necklace stands under a temporary open-sided canopy of striped red, green and blue cloth and bamboo poles, holding a silver lamp with a lit flame in one hand and a silver handbell in the other, performing a ritual. He has long, swept-back dark hair and a red tilak on his forehead. Behind him, a woman in a dark garment and another woman in a yellow sari stand with palms pressed together in prayer, with green foliage visible beyond. A cropped figure in white is at the right edge. Swamiji (probable): long swept-back hair, saffron garment and gold necklace, performing aarti with lamp and bell.

March 28 2013

A seated man with long, dark, wavy hair and a red tilak on his forehead sits cross-legged on a carved wooden seat, wearing a sleeveless saffron-orange garment over red undergarments and a dark rudraksha mala. He holds his cupped hands together in front of his chest with eyes lowered. Before him is a brass puja setup with a tall brass kalasha, brass lamps, incense sticks, a silver bowl, flower petals, bananas and fruit. A book lies on his lap. The dark background suggests an indoor ritual setting.

October 10 2010

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Outdoor ceremony at a banana-leaf and bamboo-decorated ashram inauguration. A long-haired man in orange robes with a gold-bead mala sits on a white cushion, smiling and holding a folded white cloth with gold border across his lap. Behind him a man in an orange robe and gold necklace stands, and men in white shirts and dhotis are gathered. In the lower left a woman with hair in a bun wears orange. A camera tripod and a partly visible photo card with a deity image sit at right.

July 07 2009

November 12 2010

Outdoor photograph beneath tall palm trees. A man with long dark hair, a red tilak on his forehead, a rudraksha mala and a draped saffron-orange robe with a gold-bordered edge stands on a raised stone platform, holding a long orange cord that hangs down. A bald man in orange robes sits at the lower right, and another man in orange clothing sits nearby to the right, both connected to the work with the cord. Marigold-like yellow flowers rest on the stone base at the bottom, beside a carved stone foot.

A man with long, loose, wavy dark hair stands outdoors under a large banyan tree with many aerial roots, his palms pressed together in anjali mudra at chest height. He wears an orange saffron wrap with red-bordered edges over his shoulders and a strand of rudraksha beads hanging on his chest, and has a red kumkum bindi on his forehead. Behind him, figures in orange and white clothing stand on a dirt ground, and a white cloth-covered seat and a patterned mat are visible at the left edge. Swamiji (probable) is shown as the central figure with the long hair, saffron wrap and rudraksha mala cues, offering a devotional greeting.