ancient india

3. an ideal state of happiness and peace.
4. a fortress built to protect a city
5. a place to store grain
8. a journey to a holy place
9. a strong wind that brings heavy raisins to southern Asia in the summer
11. a command that is obeyed like a law.
12. a sanskrit word meaning awakened the name given to the founder of buddhism
13. the ruler of the Mauryan empire from about 269 to 232 BCE.
16. the idea that all existing things in reality come from one original source

1. a flat area of land that is elevated, or raised, above the land around it
2. the state of gaining spiritual insight and finding the universal truths the goal of buddhists.
6. one of the first major settlements in ancient India that became a center of the
7. an ancient Indian language
10. the belief that a person’s soul is reborn into a new body after death
14. the religion created by Siddhartha which teaches that life brings suffering that one can escape by seeking nirvana enlightenment.
15. a concept found in Hinduism and other Indian traditions that the good and evil done in a past life determines what happens to that person’s soul in the next life