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A photograph inside a temple shrine. A man with swept-back dark hair, a red-orange tilak on his forehead and gold hoop earrings smiles and raises his right hand in greeting. He wears a rust-red garment over his shoulder, a long black rudraksha mala with gold beads, and a leopard-print lower cloth. In his left hand he holds a polished silver trident with a red gem. Behind him is a silver-framed deity murti draped in a marigold and white flower garland, with a brass oil lamp in front. Several devotees stand nearby, including a woman in a white sari and a man in a white shirt holding an orange cloth. A donation box marked in Hindi (dan) stands at the lower left. The probable Swamiji cues are the swept-back hair, the rudraksha mala, the gold ornaments and the saffron-red robe with the trident.

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