“But wait!” Shekar almost caught his head and doubled up in his chair, “This is just amazing and how the hell it never struck me till now!” With a few slangs to himself, he continued, “Like the Fibonacci series, everything follows a pattern. According to Hindu texts, there was a fixed age for everything, from birth to death. Tamil years are sixty in total. Any man married for the first time at twenty-five to break celibacy and after he had lived through all the sixty years, remarried the same woman at sixty. After seeing one thousand full and new moons at eighty, it was always formulae, always
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