Parthasarathi Temple, Triplicane, Chennai

At school, when other children made fun of Ramanujan, he would threaten to fall on them and crush them to the ground. He was a regular temple goer, especially at the time of the distribution of eatables (prasâdam: eatables offered to Gods). Though his father was an appraiser of cloth, as well as a salesman and an accountant to the cloth merchant and worked from dawn-to-dusk, he had a meager salary of Rs.20/- per month. To augment this income, Komalathammal had two students, from Tiruchi and Tirunelveli, boarding and lodging in Ramanujan’s small street house.