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A photograph of a seated man on a gold-and-red throne, wearing a red turban, a saffron-red robe and a long multicolour garland of orange and white flowers with green leaves, with a red-and-white rudraksha-style mala at his chest. He smiles and reaches forward to accept a small folded card or offering from a woman in a white sari with a red cord around her neck and glasses, who bows toward him. Behind them an older woman in white with a red bindi watches, and a bright red-and-yellow printed cloth hangs on a pillar beside a banana-leaf decoration under a dim shed roof. Probable Swamiji (probable) is seated on the throne, wearing a red turban, saffron-red robe, floral garland and rudraksha mala, and is receiving the offering. The scene shows darshan-style devotional interaction.

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