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A photograph of a seated man on an ornate gold throne in front of a deep red drape hung with yellow marigold garlands. He wears a tall black turban with a white crescent and pendant ornament, white and red tilak on his forehead, bare-chested and heavily adorned with layered white pearl and beaded necklaces and a leopard-print gold-brocade waist cloth over rust-brown lower garments. He sits cross-legged, holding a gold staff with a peacock-feather fan and a gold-handled cobra-shaped rod in his right hand, and a small staff in his left. Gold deity statues, a gold kalasha-like finial, a black cup on a tray and a bundle of green neem leaves stand around him.