A shaved-headed man in a red-maroon dhoti-style wrap with a gold border stands with hands clasped at his waist beside an ornately carved stone pillar in a dim temple hall. He wears a long rudraksha mala of dark beads and a red tilak mark on his forehead, and gazes off to the side. A blurred altar or offering table with an orange-lit surface sits in the background. - Nithyanandapedia

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A shaved-headed man in a red-maroon dhoti-style wrap with a gold border stands with hands clasped at his waist beside an ornately carved stone pillar in a dim temple hall. He wears a long rudraksha mala of dark beads and a red tilak mark on his forehead, and gazes off to the side. A blurred altar or offering table with an orange-lit surface sits in the background.

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