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- ↑ Maj. E.G. Wace, Report of the Land Revenue settlement of the Hazara district of the Punjab, 1874
- ↑ Hazara District Gazetteer 1883-84, Lahore: Govt of the Punjab, 1884, p. 179
- ↑ Report on Antiquities of the Mansehra Region, based on Joint Research by UNESCO and the Hazara University, Dhodial-Mansehra Campus, 2007
