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Photograph of a man standing outdoors before blurred green foliage, wearing a white dhoti-style garment with a gold-bordered cloth draped over one shoulder. He has a long black rudraksha mala hanging to his waist, a red tilak mark on his forehead, and his hair swept back. His hands are folded at his chest and he looks to the side with a slight smile. Another person in white is partly visible at the left edge.

A photograph of a shaven-headed priest in a white dhoti with red-striped border and a white upper cloth, wearing a heavy gold bead necklace and a rudraksha mala, with white and red forehead markings. He holds a small glass lamp with a lit flame in his right hand during a ritual. Behind him, another man in an orange-saffron robe and gold bead necklace sits near a microphone stand. Gold-ornamented panels and a red cloth are visible at the right edge, and a lit oil lamp sits at the bottom left.

A smiling shaved-headed man stands outdoors holding a wooden-handled red umbrella fringed with multicoloured tassels. He is bare-chested with a white dhoti-style cloth over his shoulder and red trim, wears a rudraksha mala, and has white urdhva lines and a red tilak on his forehead. Behind him are a pink wall, green foliage and a dirt road. The tassels are green, orange, red and pink. This appears to be a photo of a single person; the appearance cues do not meet the threshold for identifying the subject as a person.

A man with a white horizontal tilak and a red dot on his forehead speaks while standing in a dim interior. He wears a white dhoti-style garment with a gold-bordered shawl over one shoulder and a long rudraksha mala of dark beads around his neck. A partly visible second person in white with a white forehead mark stands at the right edge of the frame. The setting is a dark hall.

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Close photo of a shaved-headed man with eyes closed and head slightly lowered, meditative or devotional in expression. He wears white ritual cloth with a maroon-red border draped over the shoulder and bare-shouldered, and heavy gold beaded ornaments hang on his chest. White vertical and horizontal tilak marks cover his forehead with a small red kumkum dot between the brows. The background is a blurred pale courtyard with red and white structures.

A smiling bald man in a white kurta stands at a riverbank made of weathered stone, holding an orange cloth and a small pouch against his chest. He wears an orange shawl draped over one shoulder, a white tilak mark with a red dot on his forehead, a wooden rudraksha-style mala, and a metal bangle on his wrist. Behind him on the water, a green-and-white boat carries several passengers in mixed colours, including a person in purple and others in white, with a pale sandy bank and hazy buildings in the far distance.

A photograph of two shaved-headed young men in white dhoti-style garments with red-and-white borders, standing in a wooden-panelled room with shelves behind them. The man in front has a rudraksha mala around his neck, white sacred ash marks across his forehead and a red-and-yellow tilak at the centre. The man behind, slightly blurred, wears a similar white cloth and a rudraksha mala, with white and red markings on his forehead, and smiles at the camera. Neither wears saffron or ornate a person-style cues, so no candidate is identified.

April 15 2012

A man stands outdoors before a large banyan tree with many twisting aerial roots and a thick grey trunk. He wears a white unstitched cloth draped over one shoulder, leaves his upper torso bare, and has a long multi-strand necklace of reddish-brown rudraksha beads alternating with white beads. A white bead band is on his upper arm. He has white horizontal sacred ash lines on his forehead with a red central mark, and his hair is combed back. He gazes upward and to the side. a person wearing sacred ash and rudraksha adornments, but the appearance cues are limited, so identity is uncertain.

A close photograph of a smiling shaved-headed man holding a wooden-handled red umbrella overhead. He wears white ritual cloth with thin maroon borders over bare shoulders, a rudraksha-style cord at his neck, white vertical forehead markings and a red tilak dot. A raised hand appears at the left edge. Behind the umbrella hangs a strand of colourful tassels in pink, blue, green and yellow, with a pink structure blurred in the background.