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A smiling man stands in front of a gold-and-red backdrop beneath a pale canopy, raising his right hand in a blessing gesture while holding a black staff carved with a coiled cobra hood in his left hand. He wears a red turban studded with beads and jewels, a red-brown wrap banded with gold borders, a long necklace of gold-toned beads, and red beaded bracelets and armlet. Swamiji (probable): the appearance cues are a red beaded turban, ornate gold necklace, and a serpent-headed staff, matching the page's Swamiji reference. A red dot marks his forehead above white vibhuti.