A man seated on an ornate red velvet throne with silver carved armrests and frame, smiling, against a backdrop of stylised orange-red flames. He wears a crown-like gold ornament on his dreadlocked hair, a leopard-print headwrap, a dark red tilak on his forehead, a long multi-strand rudraksha mala, a thin gold chain, and an orange-saffron dhoti-style wrap over bare shoulders. A gold metal figure with a long staff and a lamp-like object stands in the foreground on the left, with a brass vessel visible at right. Swamiji (probable): the seated man has long swept-back hair with a crown, saffron clothing and rudraksha malas, consistent with the page's reference to Swamiji at this event.

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