India Crossword (No Spaces)

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  1. 4. most of India's citizens are today are these
  2. 5. one of the countries India traded with under the Guptas
  3. 8. many Hindus wanted more of this in their religion
  4. 16. you
  5. 17. ambitious leader of Mauryan Empire that wanted Magadha
  6. 19. the Creator of everything
  7. 21. Asoka wrote his laws in these languages so that everyone could read them
  8. 22. the priests
  9. 24. common people and skilled workers
  10. 26. small northern Indian state that became the focus of the Mauryan Empire
  11. 27. also called Outcastes, slaves
  12. 29. one of the countries India traded with under the Guptas
  13. 31. unskilled workers and servants
  14. 33. the warriors and rulers
  15. 34. the Destroyer of life
  16. 36. what the Buddha said one must do to become enlightened
  17. 37. Gupta mathematicians introduced this concept, as well as explaining infinity btw how u doin
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  1. 1. a decorative stone temple Buddhists built over the holy ded pepl
  2. 2. the people who took over India
  3. 3. the religious and moral law governing individual conduct
  4. 5. the Aryans revered these and thought these animals were sacred
  5. 6. founded the Gupta empire
  6. 7. the Preserver of life
  7. 9. group of believers who viewed the Buddha (not Jesus) as a human teacher
  8. 10. the spoken language of the Aryans that later became written too
  9. 11. the Buddha's explanation for the cause of suffering
  10. 12. wise ruler who that banned war in Mauryan Empire and became a buddhist after seeing the horrors of war
  11. 13. probably the most famous and well known Indian epic
  12. 14. a person who followed Buddha's Eightfold Path might reach this state of enlightenment in his lifetime (also great band)
  13. 15. only a few of India's citizens today are these
  14. 16. group of believers in Buddhism who regarded the Buddha as a god
  15. 17. lowered taxed in Gupta empire, let citizen focus more on the arts
  16. 18. the moral that says that you should not harm any living thing
  17. 20. one of the countries India traded with under the Guptas
  18. 23. also called castes, system of segregating different people by class or maybe even color
  19. 25. a system of actions and reactions throughout a soul's reincarnated lives forming a cycle of rebirth though different castes
  20. 28. Gupta scientists recognized this as a physical force
  21. 30. means enlightened one, followers of Siddhartha Gautama called him this
  22. 32. name of large main area of the world where Buddha's disciples spread Buddha's teachings
  23. 35. group of Indians who actually lost some rights since the Aryan times