Question

literature has always played a major role in understanding history.read some books for example kalhana's rajtarangini where he writes about the history of Kashmir and magasthane's Indica ,in which he tells about the glory of patliputra in ancient India ect.findout those facts which you think the author may be exaggerating.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Rajatarangini is completely a contemporary. Exaggeration in contemporary is always common, but when it comes to Indian contemporary writing the exaggerations seems touching the heights, every time. Contemporary writers considers exaggeration is a mandatory object for describing legends.  

In Rajatarangini, Kalhana had wisely avoided all the exaggerations. He simply said the fact as it was like. It seems he didn’t used any special effects to describe the legends. This is why Rjatharangini leaves the readers deep in their thoughts.