Ancient India

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Across
  1. 3. a large, distinguishable part of a continent, such as North America or southern Africa.
  2. 6. a major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia, which developed from Vedic religion.
  3. 7. a widespread Asian religion or philosophy, founded by Siddartha Gautama in northeastern India in the 5th century BC.
  4. 8. The first pan-Indian empire, an empire that covered most of the Indian region
  5. 10. the ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with
  6. 11. respect for all living things and avoidance of violence toward others.
  7. 12. cause to change in form, character, or function.
  8. 14. a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain
Down
  1. 1. is the rebirth of a soul in a new body.
  2. 2. a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
  3. 4. the system of dividing society into hereditary classes.
  4. 5. a fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city.
  5. 7. a member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood.
  6. 9. the eternal and inherent nature of reality, regarded in Hinduism as a cosmic law underlying right behavior and social order.
  7. 13. transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth