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Question
Answer the following question.
What do you understand by secular literature? Give two examples.
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Solution
Non-religious literature is known as secular literature, it includes biographies of important historical characters. For example Harshacharita by Banabhatta, dramas, and poems by famous writers Kalidasa, folk tales such as Panchatantra.
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