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Sheldon Pollock, The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory in Indian Intellectual History, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 105, No. 3, Indological Studies Dedicated to Daniel H. H. Ingalls (Jul. - Sep., 1985), pp. 499-519
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