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- ↑ Charles Philip Brown; Golla Narayanaswami Reddy; Bangorey (1978), Literary autobiography of C.P. Brown, Sri Venkateswara University
- ↑ Henry Parker (1997), Village folk-tales of Ceylon (reprint ed.), Asian Educational Services, ISBN 978-81-206-1164-1
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- ↑ Henry Parker (1914), Village folk-tales of Ceylon, Volume 3, Luzac & Co.
- ↑ East India Company Library (1851), A catalogue of the library of the Hon. East-India company: Supplement, Printed by J. & H. Cox, p. 119
- ↑ M. Manuel (1978), M. Manuel; K. Ayyappapanicker (eds.), English and India: essays presented to Professor Samuel Mathai on his seventieth birthday, Macmillan
- ↑ Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1887), The Folk-lore journal, Volume 5, Published for the Folk-lore Society, by Elliot Stock, p. 171
- ↑ Stuart Blackburn (2006), Print, folklore, and nationalism in colonial South India, Orient Blackswan, p. 203, ISBN 978-81-7824-149-4
