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Question
Answer the following question.
What are the manuscripts? On what surfaces were they; written?
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Solution
Manuscripts are the handwritten records of the past in the form of books. These records were written on a variety of surfaces such as dried sheep or goatskin, dried palm leaf, the bark of birch trees, and much later, on paper.
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Handwritten records of the past are known as ______________
Match the following.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Paintings | (a) Politics |
| 2. Monuments | (b) epigraphy |
| 3. Coins | (c) ancient law |
| 4. Inscriptions | (d) biography of a ruler |
| 5. Harshacharita | (e) cultural achievements |
| 6. Manusmriti | (f) numismatics |
| 7. Arthashastra | (g) Chinese traveller |
| 8. Fa Hien | (h) architectural achievements |
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Why are inscriptions a reliable source of information?
State whether the following is true or false.
Banabhatta wrote Harshacharita.
Choose the correct answer:
________ deals with the biography of a ruler.
Choose the correct answer:
_______ wrote Meghaduta.
