Question

Which of the following is not a religious text?
a. Rigveda
b. Sangam
c. Upanishad
d. Both A and C

Answer 1

Hint: Hindu religious texts were composed between 1500-1200BCE. These texts are a collection of poems and hymns composed by saints, written in ancient Sanskrit. Evidence shows that they were composed in the Northwestern region of India in the 2nd millennium BCE.

Complete answer: Sangam texts or Sangam literature is not a religious text. The Sangam literature is a collection of poems and texts composed by Tamil poets in the Sangam Age. Sangam texts are very different from the Hindu religious texts because they talked about topics like love or akam and heroism or Puram. There are however some instances of religious writings in Sangam texts, for example, the Paripatal, the 8th collection of Sangam texts has poems about gods and goddesses.
Some important texts of Sangam literature are:-
The two epics Silappathigaram and Manimegalai. Other texts are Tolkappiyam, Ettutogai and Pattuppattu. The most important among these is Tolkappiyam, it was written by Tolkappiyar, a Tamil Brahmin. It is an extensive text about Tamil grammar.

Therefore, The correct answer of this question is Option B.

Note: Vedas and Upanishads are Hindu religious texts written in archaic Sanskrit. The Vedas are a collection of texts which talk about rituals, sacrifices and way of life, whereas the Upanishads talk about spirituality and philosophy. There are a total of four Vedas, namely, Rigveda, Samveda, Yajurveda and Atharvaveda.