Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c6.11

c6.11

⁷ In this respect, the study of the history of traditional India is methodologically more comparable to the study of the early urbanized cultures such as those of Egypt and Mesopotamia, for which the principal sources are epigraphic rather than literary, rather than to that of the contemporary classical cultures of Europe and the Near and Far East.