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A bearded man with long dark hair sits smiling on an ornate silver throne with lion-head armrests and a leopard-print cushion. He wears a saffron-orange draped robe, bare shoulders and a red tilak on his forehead, with a gold pendant at his chest. Beside him a white-clad attendant wearing a white dhoti with gold borders bends forward holding white papers, and a silver staff stands at the left edge. Behind the throne a large screen shows a temple gopuram. Swamiji (probable) is seated on the throne as a presiding figure, identified by long swept-back hair, saffron robe and gold pendant; the attendant is a devotee or priest.