Question

What are the problems faced by a historian in interpreting information from the manuscripts?

Answer 1

Historians face various problems while interpreting old manuscripts. Manuscripts are usually handwritten. Thus, often, while copying text from another text, scribes make small mistakes. These mistakes remain in the copies. So, understanding the actual text is difficult.

Secondly, the accounts of the court historians are mostly biased. Written by the authors to please the rulers, these accounts often provide a glorified image of the rulers.