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A photograph of a man in a tall dark wrapped turban with a red tilak on his forehead, standing in a temple-like hall with a banana leaf overhead. He wears a large layered garland of red roses, purple flowers, yellow roses, white blossoms and pink lotus-bud strands, with a gold-wrapped ceremonial necklace and dark rudraksha beads. He holds two long gold-and-jewelled staffs with ornate tops. An attendant in white dhoti with a sacred tilak stands at left, and another person in a dark turban appears behind. Its role in the scene is a priest-guided ceremonial presentation.