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A seated man in a red-orange robe with a gold-bordered yellow waistband sits cross-legged before an ornate gold repoussé backdrop, with red tiger-striped cushions on either side. He has closed eyes, palms pressed together at chest in anjali mudra, a white vertical tilak with a red bindi on his forehead, and a long necklace of gold-capped rudraksha beads. The man is a single physical person; the appearance is an unsure candidate for a sannyasi with distinctive rudraksha and ceremonial gold adornments, but the cues are not enough to establish identity.