Question

What are literary sources ? Name the materials used for
writing literary sources.

Answer 1

Answer:

Literary sources are the information gathered in written forms that explain the essence of ancient culture. Sources incorporate information like journals, letters, books and investigative reports in impression, automated and visual compositions.

The ancient Indians knew writing at least as early as 2500 BC, but no manuscripts older than the 4th century arc available. The manuscripts were written on birch bark and palm leaves, but in Central Asia, where Prakrit had gone from India, manuscripts were also written on sheep leather and wooden tablets.

Answer 2

A literary source is any work of fiction or non fiction (preferably the latter) that is written in a standardised language and details the socio-political condition of the time it was written in. Biographies, autobiographies, letters, treatises, pamphlets, epics, journals, diaries, registers, annals, monographs, commentaries and the like all make up literary sources. Literary sources are different from epigraphic sources in the sense that literary sources are elaborate and are written in a standardised language with a grammar. Epigraphic sources are extrapolated from inscriptions and takes identifying the grapheme or symbol and verifying the meaning for the same according to the context.