Why is there no multiple inheritance in Java, but implementing multiple interfaces is allowed?

Question

Java doesn\'t allow multiple inheritance, but it allows implementing multiple interfaces. Why?

Answer 1

It is said that objects state is referred with respect to the fields in it and it would become ambiguous if too many classes were inherited. Here is the link

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/multipleinheritance.html