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Literary Genres and Textual Representations of Early Vīraśaiva History: Revisiting Ekānta Rāmayya’s Self-Beheading

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Ben-Herut, G. Literary Genres and Textual Representations of Early Vīraśaiva History: Revisiting Ekānta Rāmayya’s Self-Beheading. Hindu Studies 16, 129–187 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-012-9114-2

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