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Close-up photo of a smiling man with a trimmed beard, wearing a rust-red turban with a golden crescent ornament at the top, a rudraksha mala draped down the turban, and a jewelled pendant at the forehead. Sacred white ash marks his forehead. He wears a garland of white lotus-like flowers and orange-red and yellow marigolds, a rudraksha mala and a gold pendant necklace. The background is an ornate silver repoussé metal panel. The man is visibly distinctive in turban and garlands, and matches the page's Swamiji (probable) context, with the cues being the crescent turban ornament, rudraksha malas and ceremonial gold necklace.