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Epigraphists face limitations of Inscriptional evidence in the following way: 1. Technical Limitations: Sometimes the letters are very faintly engraved and thus there is uncertainty of reconstructions, inscriptions may be damaged or letters missing. It is not always easy to be sure about the exact meaning of the words used in inscriptions; some of which may be specific to a particular place or time. This has lead the scholars constantly debating and discussing alternative ways of reading inscription. 2. Problem of deciphering: Although several thousand inscriptions have been discovered, not all have been deciphered, published and translated. Besides many more inscriptions must have existed, which have not survived the ravages of time. Therefore, what is available at present is probably only a fraction of what was inscribed. 3. Fundamental problem: Fundamental problem is not everything that we may consider politically or economically significant was necessarily recorded in inscriptions. For example, routine agricultural practices and the joys and sorrows of daily existence find no mention in inscriptions, which focus more often than not on grand, unique events. Besides the content of inscriptions almost invariably protects the perspective of the persons who commissioned them. Therefore, they need to be juxtaposed with other perspectives so as to arrive at a better understanding of the past. Thus, epigraphy alone does not provide a full understanding of political and economic history for which historians often questioned both old and new evidence.
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