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>>249840 I couldn't find this book either. A search for the exact title, author, and year returned no catalogue entry, library record, or bookseller listing. It only surfaced real but different works, such as The Golden Book of India (1900) and Lepel Griffin's The Panjab Chiefs. - Same pattern as the first book. "A Treatise on the Ancient Houses and Genealogies of the Southern Peninsula" by E. R. Willoughby, Esq, 1884, had the same format. Both are "A [Historical/Genealogical] [Treatise/Survey] of the [Ancient/Principal] Houses of..." with an English author and a Victorian or Edwardian date. That's the kind of title an AI invents when asked for a plausible citation. - The author details are generic. "Colonel Arthur H. Pembroke, F.R.H.S." sounds right for an Edwardian colonial author, but I found no trace of such a person writing on Indian dynasties. - "Volume II — The Southern Dynasties" adds detail without proof. A volume number makes a citation look more credible, but I couldn't find a volume one either. - It matches your earlier AI-looking passages. If these passages cite this book, it's probably another invented source backing an unsupported claim. As before, I can't completely rule out an obscure, privately printed work that was never catalogued online. To be thorough, check WorldCat, the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and the British Library catalogue. A real 1911 work would almost certainly appear in at least one of them. Your Draksharama inscription passage is the contrast. It named inscriptions and grants you could trace, and it had footnotes. That's what a real source looks like, and these two titles lack it. If you tell me where you encountered this title, such as a website, a chatbot answer, or a social media post, I can help judge how reliable that source is.