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- 1 2 Masud Hasan Chowdhury (2012), "Hurasagar River", in Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal (ed.), Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.), Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
