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A smiling man with long, swept-back dark hair and a red bindi sits on a gold-carved throne-like chariot seat decorated with white jasmine and red-and-yellow flower garlands. He wears a sleeveless saffron-orange robe, a gold necklace with rudraksha-style beads, and a long white-and-red garland draped over his shoulders. He holds a tall golden staff with a decorative finial in his right hand, while red cushions and a golden lion-head armrest surround him. Behind him hang ornate red, white, green and black embroidered banners on a procession vehicle, and a few fragmentary white flowers appear at the bottom edge of the frame. a person is seated in a ceremonial procession setting, appearing as a passenger on a decorated ratha.