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- ↑ Lakshminarayana Sastry, Rambhatla, Luminaries of 20th Century, Part II, Potti Sriramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad, 2005, pp: 610-11.
- ↑ Varivasya Rahasyamu of Rambhatla Lakshminarayana at AVKF.org