Indian Epigraphy c6.s4.1

c6.s4.1

The great importance of inscriptions lies in the fact that they generally offer information about personages and events of Indian history, about which nothing is known from any other source. Only in some cases, we have recorded traditions about such subjects, the details of which can be compared with epigraphic information. Such a comparison very often shows that the details of the traditions are mostly wrong. There are cases of a personage or an event or a subject being merely referred to vaguely in some source and inscriptions clothing them with interesting details.