[Following the Equator Part 6 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookFollowing the Equator Part 6 CHAPTER LIII 4/21
Vishnu has 108 names which he does not use in business, and no doubt it is a custom of gods and a privilege sacred to their order to keep 108 extra ones in stock.
Just the restricted name set down above is a handsome property, without the 108.
By my count it has 58 letters in it.
This removes the long German words from competition; they are permanently out of the race. Sri 108 S.B.Saraswati has attained to what among the Hindoos is called the "state of perfection." It is a state which other Hindoos reach by being born again and again, and over and over again into this world, through one re-incarnation after another--a tiresome long job covering centuries and decades of centuries, and one that is full of risks, too, like the accident of dying on the wrong side of the Ganges some time or other and waking up in the form of an ass, with a fresh start necessary and the numerous trips to be made all over again.
But in reaching perfection, Sri 108 S.B.S.
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