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Chandra Satish: Medieval India: From Sultanat to the Mughals (1206–1526) – I. Har-Anand Publications, 1997, OCLC634705405, S.250 (englisch): “Starting from the Tamil lands under the Pallava kings, bhakti spread to different parts of south India …”