Ancient India
Across
- 7. - the belief that a person dies he comes back in another form
- 9. - having received knowledge or understanding
- 11. - the Hindu belief that a persons deeds good or bad determine his state in reincarnation
- 13. - a strict social class a person is born into
- 14. - the name Siddhartha Guatama took for himself after he left Hinduism
- 15. - a dome-shaped Buddhist shrine
Down
- 1. - a picture or symbol used in early writing to represent a word, a group of words, or an idea
- 2. - written languages of the aryans
- 3. - founder of buddhism
- 4. - a wind that reverses direction with the change of season
- 5. - British archeologists who helped and discovered excavate Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus Valley in the 1920's
- 6. - a scholar who studies languages
- 8. - collections of sacred hymn texts of hinduism
- 10. - religious duties of a Hindu or a Buddhist
- 12. - a chief, prince,or ruler in India