Alive for the Norman Conquest — and for seventy years after

The philosopher Rāmānuja is traditionally dated 1017–1137, which would place him at about 49 years old in 1066 — the year William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings and reshaped England — with, by that same tradition, roughly seven more decades of life still ahead of him. (Modern scholars, working from temple records, instead suggest c. 1077–1157.)

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