A nice short story about a purity spiral
>Now we come to my eyeglasses. I asked several pandits: “Is there any mention of eyeglasses in the Ramayana or the Mahabharata?”
>They said: “In those days people didn’t eat vanaspati ghee and so their eyesight did not weaken while they were still young.”
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