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A photograph of a man in a saffron-orange dhoti-style wrap, bare-chested and with long swept-back dark hair, smiling as he places his right hand on the forehead of a black cow with curved horns and a rope halter. Beside the cow stands a woman in a white top and orange shawl, with a red kumkum mark on her forehead, also smiling. Behind them is a thatched-roof open pavilion with a red-painted pillar and red-leafed shrubs. The man's appearance (long hair, saffron wrap, distinctive adornments) is consistent with Swamiji (probable), shown here in an ashram cow-blessing moment; the woman is a devotee. Two people are visible.