heard by everyone with profound grief. Her virtues as a Sovereign, as a wife, and as a mother are known to us to be so rare that few could beat her. In the Hindu Sastras it is said that if a person lives over 1,000 months, he or she is considered to be a holy one to whom the others should go and make their worship. In the explanation it is clearly said that months means Lunar months. According to this calculation Her Majesty lived for 1,010 months. When it is said that any person who lived over 1,000 months is to be revered, how much more respect should we show to her, who not only lived for 1,000 months, but is also the best Sovereign that India has ever possessed in this Kaliyuga. In the Tretayuga Rama, an incarnation of Vishnu, distinguished himself in his duties and virtues as a king, as a son, and as a husband. In my opinion, in which many of you, I am sure, would join, our late Empress, must have been an Incarnation of Lakshmi, born in this world to become a
