SOURCES OF ANCIENT HISTORY

BY:-- SAHIL SACHDEVA

Architectural sources

Excavations

Epigraphic sources (Inscriptions)

Numismatics sources (Coins)

Major literary sources

Vedic literature

Vedas

Vedangs

Rig veda

Later Vedic Literature

Upanishads

Aranyakas

Bramanas

Secular

Epics

Mahabharata

Ramayana

Purans

Buddhist literature ( Written in Pali Language)

Jain literature (Written in Prakrit Language)

Foreign Accounts

Greeks

Chinese

Muslims-Arabs

Common perceptions on literary sources

Religious in nature

Improper or insufficient chronology