Hinduism

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Across
  1. 3. four hindu classes
  2. 7. to manifest, to rise from an obscure or inferior position or condition
  3. 8. give all or a large part of one's time or resources to
  4. 10. consisting of about 90,000 two-line stanzas, is the longest poem in any written language. Taking place around 1000 b.c., it describes a war between cousins for control of the kingdom. The poem also includes riddles about the meaning of life
  5. 11. dominant political force in northern India. It also established loose control over central India, thus becoming the greatest state in India since the Mauryan Empire.
  6. 14. sum of someones actions that decide their future
  7. 15. rebirth into a new body
  8. 18. a major religion from South Asia
  9. 19. originally meant to house a relic of the Buddha, such as a lock of his hair. These structures were built in the form of burial mounds.
  10. 20. warriors were considered to be next in importance
  11. 22. a person who travels to a shrine or other holy place
Down
  1. 1. system of social classes
  2. 2. 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
  3. 4. grandson of Candragupta Maurya, is generally considered to be the greatest ruler in the history of India
  4. 5. the earliest known Indian literature, which contain religious chants and stories that were originally passed down orally from generation to generation and then recorded in Sanskrit after writing developed
  5. 6. something that aids or promotes well-being
  6. 8. the eternal and inherent nature of reality,a cosmic law underlying right behavior and social order
  7. 9. prospered from the trade that passed through their empire between the Mediterranean countries
  8. 12. keepers of religious secrets
  9. 13. road a route between the Roman Empire and China, so called because silk was China’s most valuable product
  10. 16. release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma.
  11. 17. people who were viewed as so impure that they were outside the caste system
  12. 21. unable to bend or be forced out of shape; not flexible