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finished the study of seven standards. The monitor of his class who had initiated him in the study of the first standard book had to take his help in completing the book. On account of his exceptional performance in study he became the favourite of his teachers and normally he conducted the classes while his teachers used to witness with admiration the work of this gifted Soul. All his colleagues loved him.
Once his teacher scolded him for something and next day he did not go to the school. Thereon all other boys of the school followed him to a field where they ate berries. His teacher was surprised at the absence of all his students in his class, inquired about it and went to the field where he was sitting with his friends. Knowing the reason of the absence of the students in his class, the teacher bowed down to him and brought him back to his class with other students and assured him that he would never scold him again.
He started composing poems at his age of eight and he wrote five thousand lines in the first year. In his nineth year he composed Ramayana and Mahabharata in verse and at ten he was mature in his thinking and reasoning. At this age he had unique curiosity to know new things, a passion to hear new facts, to think new thoughts and to perform fine orations. While he was eleven he started contributing articles to the newspapers and he obtained many prizes for writing competitive essays. He wrote among other things an essay on the need for women-education. At his age of twelve years he composed three hundred lines in verse on `a watch'. At thirteen he went to Rajkot to study English but about his English education very little is known. Before his age of fifteen he studied and mastered many subjects. He became famous as a young poet of astounding memory and with brilliant prospects.
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