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Aparimita Pramanik Sahoo, "A Brief History of Devadasi System", Orissa-Diary (July 18, 2006). Archived 19 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine. At the same time, other experts argue that the institution is "far older, and claim that what is arguably one of the most ancient extant pieces of Indian art, a small bronze of a naked dancing girl from Mohenjo-daro, dating to around 2500 B.C., could depict a devadasi."
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