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- ↑ Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha. Sutta 22:14. Wisdom Publications, ISBN 0-86171-072-X
- ↑ "Religion is Adharma – 2: Understanding Dharma". INTELLECTUAL KSHATRIYA. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
- ↑ Adharma Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, Cologne University, Germany
- ↑ "ŚB 6.1.40". vedabase.io. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ↑ Ariel Glucklich (2014), The Sense of Adharma, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0198024484, pages 8–10
- ↑ Ariel Glucklich (2014), The Sense of Adharma, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0198024484, pages 9–10
- ↑ Ph.D, Gene F. Collins Jr (21 November 2009). Cosmopsychology: The Psychology of Humans as Spiritual Beings. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 978-1-4691-2262-5.
- 1 2 Vishnu Purana, HH Wilson (Translator), Chapter 7
- ↑ Singh, N.K. (1999), Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, p. 973, ISBN 9788174881687 [ permanent dead link ]; also the name of one of the mystical weapons delivered to Ráma by Viswámitra, as in the Rámáyana (Garrett, John (1871), A Classical Dictionary of India , p. 36, ISBN 9780217668170)