how do secular literary sources throw light on the life of the people in any period of history
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Really secular literacy sources throw light on the life of the people in any period of the history. Because many of the literacy sources available now are nothing but secular and religious one.
These religious sources give information about traditional culture and ancient life style.
The secular literary sources are the sources that were not written on the basis of any religion including the biographies of important historical personalities ‘Harshacharitra’ by Banabhatta, poems and dramas ‘Abhijnanasakuntalam’, Meghaduta etc of Kalidas. The secular literary sources also included the folk tales; Panchatantra and Arthashastra of Kautilya. Manusmriti, foreign travelers account were also some of the other secular literary sources. These secular literary sources throw light on the on political, social and economic aspects of the life of the people in any period of history. For instance, Arthashastra the book written by Kautilya on politics can give us some significant information such as about the rule of law, various policies and strategies followed by the Mauryan rulers in India. The account of foreign travelers that throw light on the social condition of the people such as what kind of custom and culture was followed by the people and what were the food habits of people of a particular area.
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Really Secular literary sources thrown light on the life of people in any period of the history. Because many of literary sources available now are nothing but Secular and religious one. These religious sources give information about traditional culture and ancient life style. The account of events,by foreign pilgrims and travellers like Fa - hien (Chinese) and ambassador like Magasthenes (Greek) who visited India in earlier times , are also important sources of information about ancient Indian history and culture.