Epigraph: The Reconstructive Source of Ancient Indian History

Abstract:To know a country’s ancient history as well as its heritage, political, social, economic, religious structure, its geography, administrative system and so on, an epigraph or inscription performs a prominent role. An epigraph is a store house of different information and is one of the major parts regarding Archaeology. An epigraph not only furnishes different important and interesting information but it is the main source of historical reconstruction of a certain dynasty or certain phase of ancient history also. An epigraph has such power as to compel the epigraphists and historians rethinking on some issues which they hitherto have not thought of. The present paper deals with some of such epigraphs which contribute to amassing the epoch- making information to reconstruct the history from the beginning.