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Elaborate the factors which should be retained in mind by the historians during textual traditions. |
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Answer» (i) Historians should observe the language in which the book has been written. They should examine if the book has been written in Pali, Prakrit or Tamil which were usually spoken by the people. Further they see whether the book was been written in Sanskrit which was used by the specific section of the society. (ii) They paid their attention to the kind of text. They tried to analyse if the text contained mantras which could be read by the people. (iii) Historians wanted more to know the authors whose ideas and thoughts gave the text a concrete shape. |
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