Asian Civilization
Across
- 2. / Preserver
- 5. / Means "perfect happiness"
- 8. / Introduced Armaic writing to the Indus Valley
- 9. / Destroyer
- 12. / "Golden Age of India"
- 17. / former Hindu practice of a widow throwing herself onto her husband's funeral pyre
- 18. / Second highest class in the Caste System
- 21. / Invaded the the Indus Valley in 2,000BC
- 22. / seclusion of women at home and wearing a veil in public
- 23. / Vedic literature; instructions for hermits in the forests
- 25. / Founder of Buddhism
- 27. / Shorter Sanskrit epic
- 29. / Location of Taj Mahal
- 30. / India's greatest dramatist
Down
- 1. / Where Indian Civilization began
- 3. / World's oldest organized religion
- 4. / a merger between Islam and Hindu
- 6. / Belief in multiple gods
- 7. / paved the way for Indian unity
- 10. / Vedic literature; instructions given by a father to his son
- 11. / Longest epic poem in the world
- 13. / brought to India by the Muslims
- 14. / One of the two branches of Hinduism
- 15. / first Hindu empire
- 16. / Vedic literature; composed of hymns, prayers, rituals, magic, & poetry
- 19. / built the Taj Mahal
- 20. / Vedic literature; composed of prose texts containing observations on religious rites
- 24. / chief Hindu God
- 25. / founder of the mogul empire
- 26. / Wrote Ramayana
- 28. / greater Mauryan emperor