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A smiling man in an orange-saffron turban with a red bindi stands on a gold-and-tiger-skin dais, palms raised in greeting. He wears a saffron dhoti and shawl, a heavy red and white flower garland with a gold pendant, and rudraksha mala beads, with gold bangles and earrings. Behind him are an ornate gold throne back and gold lion-form armrests, flanked by painted deity figures in a red-orange doorway frame with hanging brass lamps. a person is the saffron-robed, turbaned figure with a rudraksha mala and ceremonial gold necklace, standing on the dais as the presiding teacher.