A studio portrait photograph against a dark mottled backdrop. A man with long, swept-back black hair, a red bindi and white forehead markings smiles broadly with his right hand raised to his cheek. He wears a saffron-orange shawl over the shoulders and a strand of brown rudraksha beads on the chest. A faint purple bird logo sits in the upper left corner. - Nithyanandapedia

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A studio portrait of a man against a dark mottled backdrop. He has long dark hair swept back, a white vertical tilak with a red bindi on his forehead, and wears an orange-saffron shawl draped over his shoulders. Multiple rudraksha beads hang in a mala around his neck. He smiles broadly, one hand raised near his face with fingers touching his temple, and his other arm folded across his body. Swamiji (probable): long swept-back hair, saffron clothing and rudraksha mala are visible cues of a sannyasi presentation, appearing as a single in-person subject in a posed portrait.

A studio portrait against a dark grey mottled backdrop shows a smiling man with long, dark, wavy hair swept back. He wears a saffron-orange wrap draped over one shoulder and a long double strand of rudraksha beads across his chest. A red bindi and white tilak mark his forehead, and his right hand is raised near his hair in a gesture. Swamiji (probable) appearance cues: long swept-back hair, saffron clothing and rudraksha malas.

A studio portrait of a smiling man with eyes closed, long dark wavy hair, a white tripunda forehead mark with a red bindi, wearing an orange-saffron shawl draped over the shoulders and a double strand of rudraksha beads across the chest. His right hand is raised, fingers open, in a gesture of blessing against a dark grey mottled backdrop. The lower right corner carries a copyright notice that is not transcribed.

A smiling man with long, dark, swept-back hair stands against a black mottled backdrop, arms outstretched toward the lower left. He wears an orange-saffron shawl draped over one shoulder and across the chest, with a dark rudraksha mala hanging at his chest. He has a white vertical tilak and a red dot on his forehead. Swamiji (probable) appears as the single person, identified only by appearance cues of long hair, saffron clothing and rudraksha mala.

A smiling man with long, swept-back dark hair stands against a dark mottled backdrop, wearing an orange-saffron shawl draped over the shoulders and a long rudraksha mala necklace. He has a white vibhuti line and a red kumkum dot on the forehead, and his right hand rests on his chest. The appearance matches the Swamiji (probable) cues of long hair, saffron clothing and rudraksha malas, though this is an appearance-based label only.

A studio portrait of a smiling man with long swept-back dark hair, a white vertical forehead mark and a red dot on the forehead. He wears a saffron-orange shawl over the shoulders and a long rudraksha mala of brown beads around the neck. The plain dark mottled grey backdrop fills the frame.

A smiling man with long, dark, swept-back hair looks upward against a dark mottled backdrop. He wears an orange-saffron cloth draped over his shoulders and two strands of brown rudraksha mala beads hanging down his chest. He has a white horizontal tilak across his forehead with a red dot at its centre. The cues of long hair, saffron cloth and rudraksha malas are distinctive, so this may be the a person candidate, but the identification is uncertain and no caption names him on this image.

A smiling man with long, swept-back dark hair wears an orange-saffron shawl draped over his shoulders and a long rudraksha mala necklace of brown beads. He has a white vibhuti line across his forehead and a red kumkum dot between his brows. The plain dark backdrop sets him against a studio portrait style setting.

Studio portrait against a dark mottled backdrop of a smiling man with long, dark, wavy hair, wearing a saffron-orange shawl wrapped over one shoulder and draped across the chest. Multiple rudraksha beads hang in a long mala over the shawl. He has a white sacred ash mark across the forehead with a red kumkum dot at the centre, and he gazes upward and to the side.