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performances. He was awarded gold medals by the public and institutions, for his excellent, unheard of and amazing memory feats.
In one of the memory feats he was shown twelve books of different sizes and told their names too. Then he was blind-folded and he used to touch a book he had seen before and immediately tell out its name. Dr. Piterson who presided over the performance had nothing but admiration and praise for this work. On other occasion he saw different dishes and said out in which there was less salt, without touching the dishes or tasting the food in them.
Some of his admirers advised Srimad to tour the foreign countries and give advantage of his art and powers to the outside world. But he refused the advice on the ground that he could not observe religious discipline in foreign countries.
Srimad thought that the wide publicity of his exceptional memory powers may hinder his march towards self-realization and so before he reached twenty, he gradually discouraged it and after twenty we hear next to nothing about his performances of memory feats. Other articles written upto the
age of twenty n Sri Vinaychand Popatlal Daftari, a friend of Srimad declares in a booklet Sakshat Saraswati' published in 1887 A. D., as follows :
"In accordance with the rules of epic poetry Srimad composed 'Namiraja' a work of five thousand verses wherein he has explained the nature of the four purusharthas-Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. This book was composed by him in six days. His spotless
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