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| Title | The Purāṇas History of Indian literature, Jan Gonda |
| Author | Ludo Rocher |
| Publisher | Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1986 |
| ISBN | 3447025220, 9783447025225 |
| Length | 282 pages |
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