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grandfather), was carrying on the business of Ship-building, Shipping and side by side that of banking and lending money on large scales. No sons of Panchan dada survived as years passed. But lateron, there was born Sri Ravjibhai who was the father of Srimad Rajchandra and Devbai the mother. Since the age of 14 , Sri Ravjibhai used to handle the banking business in Vavania, Chamanpura and nearby places. He used to pass his leisurely hours with his colleagues in the centre-place called 'Chora' of the temple of the 'Thakor'(the Chief of the town) of Vavania. 'Dayra'-the seating of folk poets and interested class-audience-used to get assemble when the village story-tellers or the bards told the legends and the stories of the Epics. Ravjibhai did go there. Moreover, He did attend such seatings being held at the doors of
