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Not Without Subtales: Telling Laws And Truths in The Sanskrit Epics

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Hiltebeitel, A. Not Without Subtales: Telling Laws And Truths in The Sanskrit Epics. J Indian Philos 33, 455–511 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-005-7050-9

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