Name: Getting to Know Our Past
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 6 min 23 s
Description: Humans have left behind chronicles of their lives through cave art, inscriptions, and manuscripts. Let’s examine these important traces of our past.

Question

Write a short note on secular literature.

Accepted Answer

Secular literature:

1. Archaeological and literary sources are the two main sources of History. Literary sources are divided into religious and secular sources.

2. The term secular usually means anything that is not spiritual. There was a wide range of non-religious writings in Prehistoric India.

3. These include stories, poems, plays, biographies of kings, accounts of foreign travellers, and books on politics and science.

4. The Arthashastra by Kautilya, the Indica by Megasthenes, the plays and poems of Kalidasa, the accounts of Fa Hien and Hiuen Tsang, and the Sangam literature are some examples of secular literature written during the ancient period.

5. Secular literature is an important source of History because the works provide an account of the governance of the empires.

Write a short note on secular literature.

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