Electrodynamics regarding volume charge density behavior

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AHSAN MUJTABA
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In this explanation we need to involve the Dirac delta functions(maybe) but I clearly have a difficulty in understanding it can some one explain me the whole concept of constant or non constant volume charge density.
 
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If this is a constant charge density, then technically we are discussing electrostatics. In some ways the simplest model for an isolated "small {in physical extent) charge density uses the Dirac ##\delta ## function but it is not essential for the electrostatics.
A static charge density is typically a continuum of finite total charge in a finite space that is constant is time.
 
Would you please elaborate a bit please?
 
Okay being specific I want to quote the following paragraph from Griffiths,
"We cannot apply Gauss’s law precisely at the surface of a dielectric, for here ##\rho_b## blows up, taking the divergence of E with it."
I don't really understand the meaning of it an explanation is needed.