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A smiling man with long dark hair and a short beard sits on an ornate silver throne upheld by a carved lion-form base, draped in a leopard-print cushion. He wears a rust-orange cloth wrap over his bare shoulder, a heavy gold multi-strand necklace and a smaller gold chain, with a red sacred thread on his wrist and a vertical tilak on his forehead. A silver staff stands to the left against a dark background, and the silver carvings behind him show dense figures. Swamiji (probable): long swept-back hair, saffron-orange wrap and ceremonial gold necklaces on a figure seated on a throne, presented as the Swamiji in this event context.