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Ragupati ragava raja ram, pathita pavana sita...
...personal fortune was estimated at $300 million. Much of it was in precious stones, golden cannons, leopard-skin-lined Rolls-Royces, sacred elephants and palaces with alabaster corridors. In 1942 he approved legislation outlawing polygamy. Soon afterwards, at the race track in Madras, he met beautiful Princess Sita Devi of Pithapuram. He promptly broke his new law by taking her for his wife although both she and he were already married. (Under Hindu law, the Princess could not divorce her husband; so she simply announced that she had abandoned her faith and become a Moslem, which automatically dissolved her Hindu...
...closed, for no pupils would attend. Bazaars and fairs shut down. Panicky villagers feared that 108 children would be kidnaped for sacrifice.* They picked 108 as the proper figure because that is sacred to Hindus. Rama, for instance, one of the incarnations of Vishnu, the Protector, offered his wife Sita 108 lotuses, each with 108 petals...
Entitled Same Sita (Lapp Village), the book was a best-seller in Sweden. Skum had a one-man show in Stockholm which sold out the first day. Looking like a squat, genial troll, Skum came down out of the wilderness to see the Big City. Said Skum: "Quite good to have been built by man." Then he went back to God's country and told his wife they were through living in tents; he had decided to build a two-room cottage where he could rest his 280 pounds during the long winter night and draw in comfort. Also...
...there are sadder, bitterer, funnier relationships between head and body, desire and fulfillment, than the original storyteller ever dreamed of; these, and their solution, make up the rest of Mann's book. A fade-out starts Sita's child, who combines many of the features of all three, on his career. His name is Samadhi, which means Collection. (Such symmetries make one shudder to think what Dr. Mann could do with Abie's Irish Rose.) This story is told with a great writer's irony at its most bland, cruel and elegant...