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Aryan Books International Historicity Of The Mahabharata Evidence Of Literature Art And Archaeology by Lal and B B
To the faithful, everything mentioned in the mahabharata is true to the very letter, whereas the skeptic holds that the epic is nothing more than a mere figment of imagination how, then, can one asertain tha truth? it is here that archaeology comes to our rescue in 1951-52, professor b b lal excavated the key-site of hastinapura, situated on the bank of the ganga, in meerut district of uttar pradesh over here he encouraged in the lower levels a settlement which was distinguished by a characteristic pottery called the painted grey ware, assignable to circa 1100-800 bc this pgw culture has since been discovered at all the mahabharata sites - a feature which binds them together the combined evidence of archaeology and literature duly establishes that the mahabharata is not a figment of imagination but has a basis in historical reality at the same time, ut is on record that the epic underwent eleven-time inflation - from 8800 to 100,000 verses - and hence it is difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff but let not the precious wheat be thrown away with the chaff