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Gregory Schopen, Doing Business for the Lord: Lending on Interest and Written Loan Contracts in the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 114, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1994), pp. 527-554
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