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A smiling man with long dark hair swept back sits cross-legged on a deep red velvet throne in front of an ornate gold-leaf carved arch. He wears an orange-saffron cloth draped over his bare shoulders and a long strand of large gold beads, with a gold chain at his neck, and has white vertical tilak marks and a red bindi on his forehead. Two gilded lion heads flank the throne, a silver trident stands on the tiger-striped floor cloth in the foreground, and a copyright line with a source credit appears at the lower right. Swamiji (probable): the long swept-back hair, saffron cloth, gold bead mala and ceremonial gold necklace match the page's claim, though this is an appearance-based label only.