It is needless to stress the importance of epigraphic material which forms the main authentic source for the reconstruction of the political, cultural and social history of our country, particularly South India. No other material has so faithfully preserved the glimpse of contemporary life of those days as these lithic and copper plate documents. In spite of the utmost care taken by their authors, be it Asoka the great, or a petty village chief, who caused them to be incised on lofty boulders of hills, or massive walls of temples, or polished slabs of stone, numerous such records have been in course of time, subject to vandalism, that has led to their total disappearance. Even those few records which have been copied a century ago by the pandits employed by Mackenzie in the Madras presidency and other neighbouring states are not all traceable now. The epigraphy branch of Archaeological survey of India is doing great service to the cause of Indian history by bringing a number of those records to light. However in a large country like India only very important inscriptions have been copied and published.
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