Question

1. Diocus the significance of the literary sources of Ancient indien history .what are their limitation. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Literary sources of Ancient Indian History: The ancient literature and the religious books are important sources of information for the reconstruction of ancient Indian history. Their classification is simple – religious and secular literature, historical literature and foreign accounts.

Limitations of literary sources include: 1) These literary sources are written on palm leaves, bark of trees etc which were considered as soft and fragile materials. 2) As a result these sources would be destroyed or damaged in due course of time, and they had to be manually copied or written down. 3.