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A smiling man seated on an ornate gilded throne with a carved lion-face back panel, pressing his palms together in namaste. He wears a rust-brown silk turban decorated with gold and white stone ornaments and a rudraksha strand, a white-and-red tilak on his forehead, and a bare chest covered by layered rudraksha and red coral-bead malas, gold bangles and a large gold pendant. Swamiji (probable): the bare-chested figure wears a turban, rudraksha malas and ceremonial gold ornaments, consistent with the page's Swamiji reference, but the face-independent cues are only moderately distinctive. Gold drapery forms the background. A