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A man with long, swept-back dark hair stands beside a large Shiva lingam decorated with flower garlands in pink, white and red, a silver-and-white tripundra mark, and a white and gold cloth draped over a wooden stand under a tent canopy with a striped fringe. He wears an orange-saffron robe, a gold ceremonial necklace and a rudraksha-style mala, and raises one hand in a blessing gesture. A small golden figure of a deity stands to the right. The man's appearance matches the page's Swamiji cues (long hair, saffron robe, ceremonial gold necklace), so he is a probable Swamiji (probable) presiding over a Shiva puja. A printed caption in the lower right corner reads as a copyright credit line.

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