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Dobe, T.S. Vernacular Vedānta: Autohagiophical Fragments of Rāma Tīrtha's Indo-Persian, Diglossic Mysticism. Hindu Studies 18, 181–219 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-014-9158-6
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