Question

what are the advantages and disadvantages of literally sources​

Answer 1

(I) Advantages:-

(1) Can tell the exact or, possible timeperiod of a particular historical event.

(2) Can tell about any particular historical event or, at least can provide any hint.

(3) Very important to know about the culture, language, literature skill, ideologies etc of that particular period in history, when the certain text was written down. -etc.

(II) Disadvantages:-

(1) May be partially biased or not; so to be careful when relating to the evidence of any possible historical event.

(2) May be some type of Metaphor or, Satire. So, all characters and the events should be very carefully noted and judged

Answer 2

Answers:

Vuragayala Rakesh Reddy, LLB from Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (2022)

Answered April 7, 2018 · Author has 66 answers and 163.7K answer views

Advantages and disadvantages of literary sources in history??? …. Well then I would quote from the perspective of an indian literary sources acting as a term of dichotomy both in interpreting and misinterpreting history of india.

let me start with Manusmriti , Yes it's a great source of literature and it's one of the greatest book which has established system of polity, a book describing various facets of duties of man, a husband, a wife, a king, a soldier, talks about cosmology, establishes the idea of justice whose central concern is dharma. It's good to know that it's a great book of evolution of such ideas and hence it helps to trace the chronological study of such ideas in an historical perspective. But, Manu who is its author was described as the first man of human race saved from floods of preceding Yuga by a fish who is said to be lord vishnu is illogical. Thus this makes to rethink again whether is this a book written to dominate the liberty of man by certain norms to establish power. May be! In this regard it misguides historians whether to consider this literature as real or virtual or virtual but real and what not the hell…..

And such interpretations and misinterpretations of indian literatures like the ramayanan, Vedas and Mahabharatam which is 10 times equal to that of Odyssey and iliad put together always bothers the historians to trace and derive the actual truth from such books which contains a lot fallacy that are once created to exercise the domination of power.

However it must also be kept in mind that this books of literacy though contains so much of fallacy evolves from the people whose psychological state of nature works with empiricism and surrounding experience which would impact their brains to generate ideas of thought since after all mind is just a Tabula-rasa( clean state). So truth can be extracted in such situations too which has faaty tales . Hence study and interpretation of such literatures to extract the truth by historians is really a job of hurdle…

Hope this throws a light to think further.

Thank you!