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Being and Text: Dialogic Fecundation of Western Hermeneutics and Hindu Mīmāmsā in the Critical Era

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Bilimoria, P. (2008). Being and Text: Dialogic Fecundation of Western Hermeneutics and Hindu Mīmāmsā in the Critical Era. In: Sherma, R.D., Sharma, A. (eds) Hermeneutics and Hindu Thought: Toward a Fusion of Horizons. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8192-7_4

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