History Ancient India Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. Ruler of the Mauryan Empire in Ancient India
- 6. The Buddhist belief in a state of complete enlightenment where a person has peace and freedom
- 12. "Enlightened One"
- 14. Written language belonging to the Aryans
- 15. A symbol or picture used in early writing to represent a word
- 16. Prince, chief, or ruler in India
- 17. Divine being of Hinduism believed to be the cause and material of creation
- 18. Wind that reverses the direction with the change of the season
- 19. Strict social class a person is born into
- 21. Anyone from outside the group of the Hindu caste system
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- 1. Nomads believed to have moved into the Indus Vally
- 2. The Hindu belief that a person's good or bad deeds determine his state in reincarnation
- 4. City chosen by Chandragupta to be the capital of the Mauryan Empire
- 5. Major Indian religion based on Vedic religious beliefs
- 7. Collections of sacred hymn texts of Hinduism
- 8. Religious duties of a Hindu or a Buddhist
- 9. The belief that after a person dies, he/she comes back in another form
- 10. Having received knowledge or understanding
- 11. Dome-shaped Buddhist shrine
- 12. Religion founded by Siddharatha Gautama
- 13. Sister city of Mohenjo-Daro
- 15. Belief that everything in the universe is part of a supreme being
- 18. Sister city of Harappa
- 20. Scholar who studies languages