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SHRIMAD RAJCHANDRA
Some of the newspapers which covered this spectacular event were "The Times of India", "Indian Spectator", "Jame Jamshed"*, "Mumbai Samachar".
Genius Rajchandra
An excerpt from "Indian Spectator" dated 18-11-1886... "We have had a visit from a young prodigy Shatavadhani Kavi Shri Raichand (Rajchandra) Ravjibhai from Vavania. He can perform a hundred different functions at one and the same time. He knows no other language but Gujarati and yet can exercise
his marvellous powers in sixteen
different languages......."
He was interested in astrology and studied Jain scriptures among other on the subject.
He digested them by reading them just
When he
once.
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"The Times of India" made a similar observation on 24-1-1887.
He even obtained the rare "Nashta-Vidya" i.e. by looking at the birth chart, he could tell the exact year, month, day and time of the person concerned.
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In the whole of India, only one other person (in Kashi) had that knowledge. In 1888, he married Zabakben, the daughter of Shri Popatbhai Jagjivandas. He accepted his role as a "Gruhasthi"* with great equanimity of mind, and submission to his previous karmas. Very little is known about his family life.
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