The Hindu Seers were not satisfied with mere compiling of history books. That alone would not fulfill their aim. They wanted the written matter to reach every individual, literate or illiterate and produce the desired effect on him. Reciters or Sutas were intended for the task. India is a vast country, having a large population and speaking a number of languages. The number of reciters required also must be in that proportion. Moreover, these reciters would have to narrate the history time and time again according to the convenience of the villager and also the forest dwellers and this is to continue for thousands of years. Hence generations after generations of reciters were trained to narrate history skillfully and effectively in various languages of this vast country. These sutas considered it their sacred duty and life-time mission to be wandering minstrels all their life, whatever be the odds they were required to face. They had conviction that whatever is written in these books is the history of this nation. it is most useful to the society and hence, they deemed it their duty to devote their lives to deliver it to the masses. The compilers had not only compiled the history but due to the quality of the compilation had created a conviction about its utility in a number of life-devoting reciters. Such a great importance they had attached to the science of historiography.

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