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- ↑ Pande, Rekha (13 September 2010). Divine Sounds from the Heart—Singing Unfettered in their Own Voices: The Bhakti Movement and its Women Saints (12th to 17th Century). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-4438-2525-2.
- ↑ Talbot, Cynthia (20 September 2001). Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra. Oxford University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-19-803123-9.
- ↑ Society, Andhra Historical Research (1986). "Quarterly Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society". Andhra Historical Research Society.: 119.
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