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A seated man in a rust-red robe with a gold-trimmed edge sits on an ornate gilded throne with a carved arched back and two gold lion figures at its base. He wears a long necklace of wooden beads and a small red tilak on his forehead, and his hair is swept back, with his arms extended over the armrests in a gesture of address. Behind the throne, a large backdrop shows a photographed temple complex with red-roofed pavilions, a stone urn and a garden pond. The image is a photograph of a single person in a staged setting, with a few blurred figures visible at the right edge of the backdrop scene. A partly visible portrait of a man in orange appears at the upper left.