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प्रश्न
Write the following sentence in reported indirect speech:
“I should have been dead if some passerby had not chanced to peep into the well,” exclaimed Guru Nayak.
उत्तर
Guru Nayak exclaimed that he would have been dead had some passerby not chanced to peep into the well.
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