Ancient India

2. the principle of cosmic order.
4. road an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea.
5. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
7. a 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. It represents the final goal of Buddhism.
10. the principle of nonviolence toward all living things.
12. the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
13. a large, distinguishable part of a continent, such as North America or southern Africa.
14. an ancient Indic language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian languages are derived.

1. each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.
3. characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
6. the rebirth of a soul in a new body.
8. a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation.
9. City community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ad hoc fashion.
11. a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (the wet monsoon ), or from the northeast between October and April
15. an Indian king or prince.