Mahabharat historicity
1)Authenticity of Epic & Puranic records:- Before Ashoka's rock edicts 3rd century BCE we have no proper material or inscriptions in Indian history. Even we know about Indus valley or Sindhu -Saraswati civilization dated from 3500BCE-1900BCE. But we unable to decipher their script so we don't know who lived there, what was their names. So pre-Ashoka history of India mostly rely on Literatures whether Buddhism, Jainism or Hinduism. The work of archaeologists are to correlate the excavated things with literature, which is not an easy work, and have lot of interpretation problems. Let's see Different renowned historians views regarding authenticity of Epic, Puranic & Vedic datas which we know from these texts & their value in Ancient Indian history. RC Majumdar:- (Source:- Ancient India by R. c. Majumdar; pg 33] HC Roychowdhury:- (Source:- POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA by HC Roychowdhury; pg no.6-7) Rc Majumdar:- " It ...