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A close-up photograph of a bearded man with a smiling expression, bare-shouldered, wearing a large maroon-red braided turban with a small golden cobra ornament at its crown and a pale blue-white vertical tilak on the forehead. He wears multiple strands of brown rudraksha beads around his neck and a rudraksha bead earring, plus a gold pendant chain shaped like a cobra. Behind him is ornate gold-coloured metalwork and a gilded deity murti with a raised arm and trident-like staff. Swamiji (probable): the figure has long swept-back hair under a turban, ornate ceremonial gold, and multiple rudraksha malas, consistent with the page's identification. Faint pedia source text appears in the lower right corner