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A seated man in orange-saffron robes with his palms pressed together in prayer, eyes lowered. He has a shaved head with white horizontal tilak lines on his forehead and white stripes on his arms and chest. A gold bead necklace hangs on his chest and a gold bracelet is on his wrist. Before him is a silver bowl on a tray. Behind him is a carved wooden chair and a wall with red and white vertical stripes, with green plants at the side. The chair and clothing suggest a ritual setting, but no visible cue establishes that this man is a person, so his identity is uncertain.

Several men sit in a devotional setting with palms pressed together in anjali mudra and eyes closed. The foreground man is shaved-headed, wears a saffron-orange shawl over a bare upper body, a dark rudraksha mala, and a gold bracelet, with white and red tilak marks on his forehead. Beside him, a man in an orange shawl and dark rudraksha mala also prays with hands folded and a gold bracelet on his wrist. Blurred figures in white dhotis and orange garments sit behind them.

A close photograph of a shaven-headed man with eyes closed, speaking or chanting, wearing a saffron-orange sannyasi garment draped over one shoulder and a heavy gold bead necklace with a rudraksha mala beneath it. He has white horizontal sacred ash bands on his forehead and a red bindi dot. Behind him, a man in white ritual clothing with a gold chain stands, and another figure in orange is partly visible at the left edge, beside a golden ornamental pillar on the right. The setting appears to be an indoor satsang or ceremony. a person: the man's appearance includes saffron robes, ornate gold beads and a rudraksha mala, but the shaved head and forehead markings are also consistent with a priest, so the identity remains uncertain.

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A photograph of a shaved-headed man in saffron-orange robes sitting on a carved wooden throne-style seat at an outdoor ritual setting, hands pressed together in namaskar with eyes closed. He wears a ceremonial gold chain with a pendant and a red-and-white sacred marking on his forehead and arms. A silver lotus-shaped bowl sits before him on a stone platform. To the left, two attendants in white dhoti and shawl with white marks on their bodies sit or stand nearby, one wearing glasses. Green foliage and a red-and-white striped wall form the backdrop.

July 30 2013

A photo of devotees in prayer during a ritual, with a shaved-headed man in the foreground wearing an orange-saffron shawl over bare shoulders and a rudraksha mala around his neck. He has three white horizontal tilak lines on his forehead, eyes closed and palms pressed together in anjali mudra. Behind him a second man in white clothing with a yellow-edged cloth also holds his hands in prayer, and several more people in orange robes are blurred in the background. The warm dim setting suggests an evening puja or satsang gathering.

A close photograph of a bald man with white vertical tilak lines on his forehead and a red dot between the brows, eyes closed and hands pressed together in namaste while chanting. He wears a saffron-orange cloth with a gold border over a bare upper body, and multiple rudraksha malas hang on his chest with a dark pendant cord at his neck. Behind him, several men with white tilak marks and white dhotis sit with their hands folded in prayer. The man in front is not clearly shown as a person, so the identity is uncertain.

A photograph of a group of people seated in prayer with palms pressed together in namaste during an evening ritual. In the foreground a shaved-headed man wears saffron-orange robes over a bare upper body, with a white tilak on his forehead and a rudraksha mala around his neck, eyes closed. Beside him an older man in white dhoti and shawl with a yellow sacred thread also holds his hands in anjali. Behind them, other seated devotees in orange and white clothing pray, and a tripod and brass vessel sit at the lower edge.