It is believed that adding a one rupee coin to the whole sum of 100 makes it an odd number. This signifies ________.
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Explanation:
I believe this is just a psychology which running generations after generations, nothing more. The auspicious part got added just to justify it.
Lets take an example, it holds true to any amount.
If Mr. X gave 499 Rs. as gift and someone asked how much Mr. X had given then the reply may be either less than 500 or something in the range of 400. Which is not cool.
When same Mr. X gave 500 Rs. as gift and someone asked how much Mr. X had given then the reply will be 500 Rs.
Now if Mr. X, gave 501 Rs. as gift and someone asked how much Mr. X had given then the reply may be more than 500 Rs, which sounds cool.
So this all thinking, may not be actual scenario but will be exactly running inside inside Mr. X mind before he decide on the Gift amount as everybody loved to be socially cool and no one want other person thinks him miser about the gift amount. If someone actually asks Mr. X, why the hell he added 1 Rs. on top of the gift amount, then the ready answer of auspicious part comes into picture.
To negate the theory of Auspiciousness I will add that, people add 1 Rs to there cash gifts in Marriages, Birthday Parties, any ceremonies and Rituals which is fine but they do add it when they attend someones funerals, 4th day after someone died or 13th day after death even someone need financial help in there death bed. How auspicious this can be if some one died or on verge of dying?
Now the reciprocate or return gift part, which is originally of more american culture than Indian. So unless some sailor boarded with Columbus in 1492 and then came back to Europe and boarded with Vasco De Gama and landed in India on 1498, I am not seeing this transfer of culture here. So I believe this theory is also wrong.
So what is the reason? No offence to anyone, did you heard the monkey and banana theory. Similar to this something happened long back which no one knows and can firmly confirm today, that built up the current psychology of this tradition we follow today. Everyone can only give there ideas, no one can claim it's true, so also me that's why I started with "I believe" rather than "I Know".
In case not aware of the psychology theory of Monkey and Banana, here you go. Again, this is theory to support from where any traditions may comes up including this one and in current or past generations may not have any clue about the actual reason of the tradition. This is not an intention to offence anybody.
Explanation:
The Indian 1-rupee coin (₹1) is an Indian coin worth one Indian rupee and is made up of a hundred paisas. Currently, one rupee coin is the smallest Indian coin in circulation. Since 1992, one Indian rupee coins are minted from stainless steel. Round in shape, the one rupee coins weighs 3.76 grams (58.0 grains), has a diameter of 21.93-millimetre (0.863 in) and thickness of 1.45-millimetre (0.057 in). In independent India, one rupee coins was first minted in 1950 and is currently in circulation