Question

Do you think ordinary people would have read and understood the Prashastis? Justify your answer.

Answer 1

Prasahastis are the biographies of kings or records of their achievements composed by court poets and then engraved on stones in the form of long inscriptions.  

(1) The parashasti in praise of Samundragupta was written in sanskrit language, the language of the learned people.  

(2) The parashasti was composed in very long sentences. So the ordinary people may not have read and understood the prashasti