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Outdoor photograph beside a tall wooden ratha-style pillar or flagstaff wrapped with yellow and red marigold garlands and crowned with a bundle of green mango leaves and straw. A bearded man in a rust-brown dhoti and an ornate rust-orange turban stands at right, smiling, one hand raised toward the pillar and the other holding a thick rope. He wears a heavy gold necklace, a dark rudraksha-style mala with pink and white floral garland draped over his chest, and gold bangles. Palm fronds fill the background. At far right, a second person with long matted hair and bare upper body works near the rope. This is a ceremonial flag-hoisting (dhvajarohanam) scene. Swamiji candidate: bearded man in turban with distinctive gold necklaces and rudraksha mala, appearance-based label Swamiji (probable).

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