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A photograph taken indoors in a plain room with a wall clock, a framed deity picture high on the wall, and grey metal lockers. A tall man with long dark hair and a flower-and-marigold garland, wearing a saffron-orange robe, stands on a patterned floor drawn with white kolam lines. Several men in white shirts and white dhotis or trousers stand and kneel around him; one kneels low and touches his feet, another stands with hands folded in namaskaram, and others look on with orange-striped neck cords. This appears to be a devotee performing padapuja-style reverence. Appearance-based label: Swamiji (probable), identified by the long hair, saffron robe and garland.

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