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- ↑ Karki 1983.
- 1 2 Khatri 1999, p. 121.
- ↑ Not to be confused with Nepalese Ambassador to Britain, late Dr. Singha Bahadur Basnyat, husband of Princess Jyotshana Basnyat of Nepal
- ↑ Khatri 1999, p. 120.
- ↑ United States Foreign Broadcast Information Services 1974.
