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Across
  1. 1. the religion created by Siddhartha which teaches that life brings suffering that one can escape by seeking nirvana enlightenment.
  2. 3. a place to store grain
  3. 8. the ruler of the Mauryan empire from about 269 to 232 BCE.
  4. 9. a fortress built to protect a city
  5. 11. the state of gaining spiritual insight and finding the universal truths the goal of buddhists.
  6. 12. a command that is obeyed like a law.
  7. 13. a sanskrit word meaning awakened the name given to the founder of buddhism
  8. 14. a journey to a holy place
  9. 15. a strong wind that brings heavy raisins to southern Asia in the summer
Down
  1. 2. an ancient Indian language
  2. 4. the belief that a person’s soul is reborn into a new body after death
  3. 5. one of the first major settlements in ancient India that became a center of the
  4. 6. a concept found in Hinduism and other Indian traditions that the good and evil done in a past life determines what happens to that person’s soul in the next life
  5. 7. a flat area of land that is elevated, or raised, above the land around it
  6. 10. the idea that all existing things in reality come from one original source