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- ↑ Sohan Lal Suri (1851). Umdat-ut-tawarikh, Vol. III (ii). Guru Nanak Dev University. p. 295.
- ↑ Gupta H.R. (1982). History of the Sikhs, vol. V. Munshiram Manoharlal. p. 551.
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