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A photograph of a man seated on an ornate golden throne, wearing an orange saffron shawl draped over his shoulders and a long ceremonial necklace of large gold beads. He has long dark wavy hair, a red bindi on his forehead, and smiles while raising one hand in a gesture of address. Behind him is a gold-embossed backrest with a relief of deities, and in the right foreground an oil lamp burns with an open flame beside a grey curtain. a person: a long-haired figure in saffron with ornate gold beads and a throne, consistent with the page's reference to a person, though the appearance is taken as a probable match only.