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“There are limits to what epigraphy can reveal. ” Justify with suitable arguments.

1) The scripts found are not very easy to decipher. E. g. the excavated Harappan script has 400 signs which are yet not been deciphered.


2) There are scripts where the letters and symbols are faintly engraved and could not be recovered.


3) Not all scriptures could be found as they could not survive the ravages of time.


4) It cannot be said, as what one today considers important economically, socially or politically be engraved in the scriptures.


5) The scriptures found have missing words, letters, symbols etc.


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