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Bénédicte Letellier. L’amour dans le Thirukkural lu à la lumière des poèmes de Sri Aurobindo et Kamala Das. Colloque international ”Thirukkural, éthique et représentations : La Vertu, la Fortune et l’Amour”, Université de La Réunion; INALCO, Apr 2016, Saint Denis, La Réunion. pp.89–96.
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182Sri Aurobindo, Longs Poèmes, trad. Raymond Thépot, Auroville, Editions Latin Pen, 2002, p. 59.
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186 Sri Aurobindo, Longs Poèmes, trad. Raymond Thépot, Auroville, Editions Latin Pen, 2002, p. 74.
187 Kamala Das, « The suicide », The Old Playhouse And Other Poems, Hyderabad, Orient Blackswan, 2014, p. 34.
188Kamala Das, «The suicide», The Old Playhouse And Other Poems, Hyderabad, Orient Blackswan, 2014, p. 37.
