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Not to prolong this. But the written story about T reciting it for 21 years (960 million times) is a stretch of imagination. We say "pon vaikkum iDattil poo vaikkalAm". Also Vishnu sahasranamam says, "sri rAma rAma rAmEti ramE rAmE manOramE; sahsranAma tattulyam rAma nAma varAnanE". Like that each utterance was equivalent to 1000 times or more is an acceptable advice. Perhaps T was told a similar "yukthi". A shorter span of time than 21 years would have been enough. People who wrote the story really took pains to calculate the elaborate time needed. Imagination can run riot!