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A photograph of a seated man in red-orange sannyasi robes and a long rudraksha mala with a white vibhuti horizontal mark on his forehead, sitting on an ornate silver throne with a leopard-print cushion. A second bare-chested man in a red turban and rudraksha beads kneels at his side, holding incense sticks over a silver offering dish with flowers and reaching toward the seated man's hand. Behind them a red backdrop shows a large painted deity eye, a silver trident stands at left, and a microphone is at right. a person: the seated man has long swept-back hair, a rudraksha mala and saffron-red robes, consistent with the page's Shiva Deeksha darshan context; the kneeling man is a devotee performing a ritual offering.