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Close-up photo of a smiling man wearing a large rust-brown rudraksha-bead turban, with a vertical white-and-red tilak on the forehead and a red bindi between the brows. He wears small gold hoop earrings and a heavy gold ceremonial necklace with a beaded collar over orange-saffron clothing. Behind him is an ornate gilded repoussé backdrop with flowing scroll patterns. Swamiji (probable): the rudraksha turban, saffron clothing and ornate gold adornments are the qualifying cues, shown as a seated devotee-facing portrait in front of a golden throne-like backdrop.