His survival was a rarity since most people were not vaccinated against the disease, contracting smallpox was often deadly. When he was two years old, Ramanujan contracted smallpox and became seriously ill. Kanigel discusses Ramanujan’s birth and the traditional rituals that surrounded it, such as the fact that he was named on the 11th day after he was born. Kanigel details how the river was considered sacred, like India’s larger river, the Ganges, and for this reason, the Cauvery is also known as Dakshin Gange, or “the Ganges of the South” (10).
Many natives of the area saw the river as a spiritual force. As a child, he lived in Kumbakonam, a town 160 miles from Madras in southern India, on the Cauvery River. Kanigel highlights biographical details from Ramanujan’s early life.
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