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A seated man in a red-orange silk wrap and matching dhoti sits cross-legged on an ornate gold throne with carved arched back and two gold lion-head armrests, draped in a red-and-black tiger-striped cushion. He wears a long beaded mala necklace and a white tilak with a red dot on his forehead, and his right arm is extended outward in an open-palm gesture while he speaks. Deep maroon velvet drapes hang behind the stage. Swamiji (probable): long hair, orange-red silk wrap and ceremonial beaded necklace, seated on the gold throne.