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A seated man in a tall black turban wrapped with a rudraksha bead band sits on an ornate silver-and-red throne-style seat. He wears a rust-red dhoti and a bare upper body hung with layered rudraksha malas, with white ash markings on his forehead and arms and a vertical tilak. He grips a wooden press handle, and a second person with rudraksha beads and white arm markings at the right edge works the wooden lever press, which has a dark metal screw post and a cloth bundle inside. A brass oil lamp and silver bowls sit at the left. The man's long-hair-free shaved look is not visible; cues are the turban, rudraksha and tilak. Probable Swamiji (probable) appears in person, based on the turban, rudraksha malas, throne and ceremonial dress.

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