India Crossword

3. a preceptor giving personal religious instruction.
4. a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal
5. a person usually from an old, respected family who, because of wealth and social position, wields considerable social, economic, and political power.
7. an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
8. a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
9. an epithet of Buddha meaning “he who has attained his goal.”.
11. the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
13. freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering
15. a river in S Asia, flowing from W Tibet through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.
17. a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group
18. a king or prince in India.
19. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation.
20. the common religion of India.
21. a village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.

1. Buddha.
2. a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet.
5. a religion, originated in India by Buddha
6. a large landmass, as Greenland, that is smaller than any of the usually recognized continents.
10. an archaeological site in Pakistan, near the Indus River: six successive ancient cities were built here.
12. the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
14. Ethnology-a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.
16. a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet.
17. essential quality or character, as of the cosmos or one's own nature.