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A smiling man with a voluminous black hair crown and a white sandalwood tilak on his forehead sits cross-legged on an ornate gilded throne with a red-brown cushion. He wears a heavy gold chain collar, a rudraksha mala with a large pendant, a gold-and-bead-decorated upper garment, and an orange-brown dhoti. He has a bangle on one wrist. Behind him stand gold statues of a female deity playing a veena on the right and a standing figure on the left, with gold ceremonial staffs topped by leaf-shaped finials and a gold drape backdrop. A small table holds a black cup. Overlay text in the lower right corner reads a copyright line. Strong cues of long swept hair, a crown, saffron-orange clothing and rudraksha malas suggest the page-named a person, presented as a probable identity.

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