Great efforts will be required to compile the above mentioned comprehensive history, There is one difficulty also. Vyasa's compilation of ancient Indian history is known to be the last one. It was compiled, according to the tradition, just after the Mahabharata War. Very less information is available from the date of the Bharata War till the time of Buddha. Some scholars attribute this to natural calamities like earth-quakes, sand-storms, heat and cold waves, etc.. Whatever be the reasons that information is meager. After the Buddha, from the sixth century BC India has faced constant invasions from foreigners. Many of them were barbarous by nature and have destroyed the historical source material. These invasions have continued for thousands of years. it is definitely creditable to India that it defended itself against such powerful invaders who had destroyed empires like the Roman and the Persian. But Indians were not able to devote time for constructive social activities like historiography, possible in peaceful circumstances. This discontinuance is a difficulty which the new compilers will have to face and will have to increase the enormity of their efforts.

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