Not to sound like a skeptic, #16 appears incredulous. If you do a simple math, 21 years and 15 days work out 7680 days. Multiply it by 24 hours, you get 184,320 hours. Multiply it by 3600 to get seconds. You get 660 million seconds. Let us assume he can recite "rAma" one per second on a practical basis. Perhaps 3 per 2 seconds. You can recite 990 million times. The target is 960 million. So to do this one has to recite day in and day out for 21 years and 15 days during every second of waking time and sleeping time. Imagine that. When you eat you cannot recite (orally), when you sleep, can you? When did he start and when did he finish? As a boy and how old was he when he finished? He did not do any music then---think, write, sing etc.,? Sorry to crash the party!