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A bearded man with long dark hair and a white vertical tilak on his forehead sits on an ornate silver-framed seat, bare-chested and wearing a rust-brown dhoti draped over his shoulder with a gold border. He smiles while holding a steel tray of food and reaching toward it. Behind him stands a bronze Nataraja statue dancing within a fiery arch, with a seated Nandi bull figure and a leopard-print cushion nearby. Blurred heads of seated people fill the lower foreground. Probable Swamiji cues: long swept-back hair, bare-chested with rust-coloured ceremonial dress and a gold chain, seated in a throne-like chair while serving food to devotees.