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Close portrait photograph of a smiling man with tall swept-up black hair, a white vertical tilak with a red bindi, and a trimmed moustache and beard. He wears heavy gold ceremonial necklaces and a rudraksha mala over a rust-red beaded garment, with gold ornaments on his shoulders and gold earrings. He raises one hand in a mudra with rings on his fingers. Behind him is a silver repoussé backdrop with a lion-face motif and gold tassel-like decorations. a person by appearance cues including the ornate gold necklaces, rudraksha beads and long swept-up hair; the image is a posed portrait with one person present.