Examine these two statements carefully and select the correct answer using the codes given below: **Statement I:** For early societies, historians retrieve information about elite families mostly from inscriptions. **Statement II:** Satavahana inscriptions generally end with the term Putra, a Prakrit word meaning 'son'. Codes:

Q: Why are inscriptions preferred over literary texts for genealogy?

Inscriptions are contemporary to the events and less prone to later editorial changes compared to literary manuscripts.

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C. Historians primarily use inscriptions to gather data on ancient elite families. However, the term 'Putra' in Satavahana records is Sanskrit, not Prakrit, which is an important linguistic distinction.

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A. Both statements are true and II is the correct explanation of I.

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B. Both statements are true but II is not the correct explanation of I.

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D. Statement I is false but Statement II is true.