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attracting students from afar and the spreading fame of Churu (Rajasthan) as a new
Varanasi. The canto also describes the ideal perfection of a resident student's life. The ninth canto describes the misery caused by the famine of 1889, a prayer to Lord Shiva is organized and an unprecedented rainfall
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