The head of an Indian sect that allows polygamy and who himself had 39 wives and 94 children has died in the Indian state of Mizoram, NBC News reports. No cause of death was reported, but exhaustion will likely be considered a factor.
Ziona Chana, who was 76 years old at the time of his death, lived with his family in a four-story, 100 room structure, which had become a tourist attraction in the remote village of Baktawng. The wives lived in a dormitory on the campus.
In 1942, Chana’s grandfather started the sect, that was largely left undisturbed by legal authorities even though Indian law prohibits polygamy. Chana said that he married his first wife when he was 17, and bragged that he had married ten women in one year.