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Outdoor photograph in a palm-grove compound of a seated man in orange saffron robes with long swept-back hair and a red tilak, eyes closed in meditation with hands folded, sitting on a low wooden platform inside a circle of gray ash. Behind him a black stone Nandi bull statue wears a red and yellow marigold garland and sits on a white stepped plinth, with a small temple spire behind it. A brass kalasha stands at the left edge of the circle. Several other people in white dhotis and white shirts, some with yellow or saffron shawls, sit cross-legged in meditation on the ground, and smoke rises from the fire pit in the background. a person: the seated saffron-robed man has long swept-back hair and saffron clothing, a candidate cue, but his face is not used to identify him.