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Outdoor evening photograph at a ghat-like setting with a blurred oil lamp in the foreground. A man with long, swept-back dark hair and a small red tilak on his forehead stands in a saffron-orange sleeveless robe with a golden shawl edge and a long necklace of gold-toned beads, hands clasped in front of him. Swamiji (probable): long swept-back hair, saffron robe and ornate gold beaded necklace. To his left a figure in white holds a gold trident staff. Behind him are robed attendants in orange and white and a crowd of onlookers. A woman on the right wears a red shawl and black top. The scene suggests aarti at dusk.