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Inside a temple hall, a priest with a shaved, white-ash-marked head and bare chest, wearing a pink towel and rudraksha mala, offers a silver tray of fruit, flowers and coconuts. A seated man in orange robes with long swept-back dark hair and a gold necklace receives it at a table covered in white cloth, with a red visitor book labelled "VISITORS BOOK" in front. Behind them, a man in orange with a grey beard, white-clad devotees and a man in a lime-green shirt stand near painted wooden statues of devotees with palms pressed together. The appearance-based candidate matches several cues, so the depiction is a person seated in person.

January 14 2009

Indoor temple photograph in a stone hall with pillars and painted statues. A bare-chested priest in white dhoti with a red shawl and rudraksha mala stands at left holding a tray of fruit and flowers. A shaved-headed man with white tilak and a sacred thread, wearing a white dhoti, holds a yellow cloth-wrapped kalasha toward a seated figure. Beside him a younger man in saffron with a gold necklace extends his hands to receive it. Standing onlookers in white shirts and a lime-green shirt watch. A visitors book sits on the table in the foreground.

January 14 2009

January 14 2009

A photograph inside a temple hall at night showing a seated man in saffron robes and a gold necklace, hands pressed together in greeting, in front of a white-covered table bearing a red bound visitors book with a gold label. Standing around him are other saffron-clad sannyasis with gold garlands, a bare-chested man in white dhoti with sacred ash marks, a smiling woman in a green and purple silk saree with bangles and gold necklace, folding her hands, and several men in white shirts and dhotis. Painted deity statues and a yellow metal gate stand in the background.

A photograph of a ceremonial gathering indoors. On the left, a bald elderly man in orange robes and a rudraksha mala sits on a gold-and-red throne chair. Behind them, a man in orange cloth and others in white stand. In the foreground, a woman in a green sari and a man in white kurta and dhoti hold a tray of yellow and white flowers and green leaves, offering it to the seated figures. The walls are pale blue.

A photograph of a temple ritual with several men in saffron and white. In the foreground a man with long dark hair tied back, wearing a saffron dhoti and shawl, a heavy gold-bead necklace, and white sacred ash marks on his arms and forehead, stands beside an orange upholstered chair and holds his hands over a steel tray of green leaves. Facing him, an older bearded priest in a red shawl bends forward holding the tray, with a second tray of yellow flowers visible at right. Behind them a man in a white kurta with an orange scarf and a bald man in orange robes with glasses look on.

A devotee in white shirt and white dhoti bows forward with hands folded and head lowered while a man in saffron robes and a black rudraksha mala smiles and touches the devotee's head with a hand. A silver tray holding gold-coloured objects is offered by a man in white dhoti with a sacred shawl, and another attendant with white forehead markings stands on the right. Several other men in white clothes stand around in an indoor hall with coloured decorative pillars and a whitewashed wall. The saffron-robed man has long swept-back hair and gold necklaces, a distinctive cue, so this is an appearance-based a person blessing a devotee, with the rest of the scene showing a darshan or blessing.

Photograph of a seated ritual gathering. A figure in an orange saffron robe with long dark hair and a white forehead mark sits on a patterned mat, smiling and holding a brass tray of offerings, while wearing a thick garland of red and yellow marigolds. Facing them, a bare-chested man in orange cloth and a rudraksha-style necklace sits with palms pressed together in namaskar. Two other men in white ritual dhotis and orange cloth sit nearby, and several standing men in white shirts and dhotis, some with orange shawls, watch with hands folded. The setting appears to be a temple-side or outdoor devotional gathering.

November 06 2010

A long-haired figure in a saffron-orange shawl wrapped over the shoulders and multiple gold-beaded rudraksha-style necklaces stands at the centre, extending a folded white paper or prasadam to a row of men in white shirts and white dhotis with hands folded in greeting. Behind him a shaved-headed attendant in a saffron cloth and beaded necklace stands by a tray of fruit, and an older man in white with an orange shawl is visible at right. The setting is an indoor hall with a projection screen and blue drapery. The central figure matches the probable Swamiji appearance cues of swept-back long hair, saffron clothing and ceremonial beads, and is presented as the one giving prasadam to devotees.