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The education provided at Nalanda University was of both religious and ______ types.

AIrreligious
BEntertaining
CSecular ✓ Correct
DBusiness-oriented
Correct answer: (C) Secular
Explanation

Education at Nalanda was both religious and secular in character.

Irreligious does not describe its teaching, which respected spiritual learning.

Entertaining is not the term for the serious scholarship pursued there.

Business-oriented misreads its broad intellectual curriculum.

Alongside Buddhist studies it taught logic, medicine, mathematics and grammar.

Nalanda drew scholars from across Asia to its large residential campus.

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