Studies in the Ancient Indian Inscriptions: 1st - 3rd Centuries CE - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

A universally accepted fact is that no literature of the proper recorded historical nature throwing light on the events that materialized in Ancient India is available to us with an exception of a few. The reason is that the authors, who produced a vast Ancient Indian literature available to us today, were actually not the historical writers or the historians; instead, they were the philosophers, sages, seers, thinkers, ascetics, hermits and saints, who shared and propagated their experiences and knowledge among the common mass about the secrets of life, which they earned themselves via researches conducted through leading a disciplined and pious life, austerity and hard penance. The literature in this part of the world in ancient times was, thus, created with the social and religious frame of mind for the benefit of mankind as a whole. The study of inscriptions, therefore, becomes mandatory as far as knowing the history of Ancient India is concerned, as the genuine inscriptions form the most authentic source for almost correct reconstruction of the past events. This book reevaluates the pioneering and untiring efforts put in by the epigraphists, especially the European and Indian scholars, during the last couple of centuries to decipher the contents of the epigraphic records scattered all over the country and, thus, unveil the historical events that occurred during the first three centuries of the Common Era.

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