The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c16.s1.3

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¹ This problem has been handled by the historians who have made several sincere attempts at using our traditional literature for reconstructing the history of India before the Sisunagas *i.e.* before 600 B.C. Unfortunately, the tendency has either been to ride rough shod over the material and condemn it or the other extreme of taking these as literally true histories. Hence the writer hesitated to treat it in the text and the following attempt is made as an experiment and to lay down certain suggestions for further work. One of the major handicaps in our Puranic studies has been the lack of a critical apparatus among those who can really scan these original texts and the dearth of this latter capacity among most of the historians who have tried to apply modern historical methods. For a detailed bibliography on this subject see: PUSALKAR, A. D. *Studies in Epics and Puranas of India*, Bombay, 1955. J. STEIN, A. (Ed.), *Kalhana's Raja Tarangini*—Introduction.