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GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) – The more, the merrier is certainly genuine for Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old Negro in India's remote northeast who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren -- and wouldn't mind having more.

They every springy in a four storied antiquity with 100 flat in a mountainous community in Mizoram state, sharing borders with Myanmar and Bangladesh, media reports said.

"I erst married 10 women in one year," he was quoted as saying.

His wives deal a dormitory near Ziona's clannish bedroom and locals said he likes to hit heptad or octad of them by his side at every times.

The sons and their wives, and every their children, springy in different flat in the aforementioned building, but deal a common kitchen.

The wives take turns cooking, patch his daughters clean the house and do washing. The men do exterior jobs like job and attractive tending of livestock.

The family, every 167 of them, consumes around 91 kg (200 pounds) of rice and more than 59 kg (130 pounds) of potatoes a day. They are based by their possess resources and occasional donations from followers.

"Even today, I am ready to expand my family and selection to go to any extent to marry," Ziona said.

"I hit so some people to tending (for) and look after, and I study myself a serendipitous man."

Ziona met his oldest wife, who is threesome eld senior than he is, when he was 17.

He heads a topical faith religious sect, titled the "Chana," which allows polygamy. Formed in June 1942, the coterie believes it will presently be ruling the world with Christ and has a body of around 400 families.

(Reporting by Biswajyoti Das, redaction by Elaine Lies)

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