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A man seated on an ornate gold-and-cream throne with a carved golden lion-head armrest and a tiger-striped cushion. He wears a red-maroon dhoti and matching shawl with gold borders, a long gold-bead necklace, gold armband and wrist beads, and a white forehead mark. His hands are clasped in his lap. Behind him hang brass oil lamps and a brass bell on chains. A man in a red turban sits behind him, and in the lower right a man in white ritual cloth with a red shawl and rudraksha mala tends silver trays holding flowers. Probable Swamiji cues: long swept-back hair, ceremonial gold necklace and saffron-red clothing on a throne.