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Ancient history has so far been constructed principally on the basis of literary sources,
foreign and indigenous. Coins and inscriptions play some part, but the texts receive greater
weightage. Now new methods must be adopted. Historical knowledge keeps growing. We
have to be more critical about the dates and contents of the texts. This may be done if we
examine the texts in the context of archaeological evidence. Initially, archaeologists were
inspired by written texts, and several sites mentioned in the Brahmanical and Buddhist texts
were excavated. This immensely enriched historical information, though the digging results
did not always confirm the contents of the texts. Though full-length reports of many
excavated sites are yet to be published, it is advisable to examine the texts in the context of
archaeological findings. For the study of the age of the Rig Veda we have to take into account
of the Gandhara grave culture in which the horse was used and the dead were cremated in the
second millennium BC. We have to establish a co-relation between the later Vedic age, on
the one hand, and the Painted Grey Ware and other types of archaeological finds, on the
other. Similarly, early Pali texts have to be related to the Northern Black Polished Ware
(NBPW) archaeology. Besides, the information derived from the Sangam texts needs to be
co-related with that inferred from inscriptions and early Megalithic archaeology in peninsular
India.
Archaeological evidence should be considered far more important than the long family
trees fround in the Puranas. The Puranic tradition could be used to date Rama of Ayodhya to
around 2000 BC, but diggings and extensive explorations in Ayodhya do not show any
settlement around that date. Similarly, although Krishna plays an important role in the
Mahabharata, the earliest inscriptions and sculptural pieces from Mathura between 200 BC
and AD 300 do not attest to his presence. Given such difficulties, the ideas of an epic age
based on the Ramayana and the Mahabharata must be discarded, although in the past it
formed a chapter in most survey volumes on ancient India. Of course, several stages of social
evolution in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata can be detected. This is so because the
epics do not belong to a single phase of social evolution; we may recall that they have
undergone several editions. Further, on the basis of literary traditions and epigraphic material,
Vardhamana Mahavira and Gautama Buddha are generally dated to the sixth century B.C, but
the cities they visited are archaeologically not older than 400 BC and therefore the traditionbased
dates of these great personalities need to be reconsidered.
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16. Discuss the contributions of Poona Sarvajanik Sabha.
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