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A standing man in a rust-orange turban with a red bindi and an orange-and-gold bordered shawl draped over his shoulders, wearing a long dark rudraksha mala with a pendant at the chest. He raises his right hand in a blessing gesture and smiles, posed in front of large pale aerial roots of a banyan tree that are marked with red and yellow dots. Faded film-photo colouring; a copyright line and an archive source credit appear faintly in the lower corner.