Ancient India Vocabulary
Across
- 2. the cycle of life death and rebirth
- 3. the practice of being non violent
- 7. a landmass that's surrounded by 3 bodies of water
- 9. a prince that became buddha
- 11. a social class
- 12. the top social class, includes priests
- 14. a large landmass that is not as big as a continent
- 17. the lowest social class, sometimes not included in social pyramids
- 18. a state of perfect happiness that is achieved after giving up all desires
Down
- 1. a strong shift in wind patterns that bring rainy weather
- 4. a state of spiritual and intellectual awareness
- 5. a persons personal duty based on the individuals place in society
- 6. also known as "the enlightened one"
- 8. a good or bad force created by a persons actions, and it can determine if a persons soul is reborn into a higher or lower form of life
- 9. the first written language of ancient india
- 10. a teacher
- 13. the practice of sitting still and quieting one’s mind, with the hope of finding spiritual truths about life and death
- 15. the universal spirit found in hinduism
- 16. major political unit having great territory or peoples under one dominant power
- 19. a sacred text that relates to hinduism