Across
- 4. the belief that that one’s rebirth in a next life is determined by one’s actions in this life
- 7. the merchant class
- 10. the idea that the individual soul is reborn in a different form after death
- 11. the individual soul
- 12. Another new faith founded by a contemporary of Siddhartha
- 15. the great bulk of the Indian population
- 18. a new doctrine that appeared in northern India that would eventually begin to rival the popularity of Brahmanical beliefs
- 19. a set of laws that set behavioral standards for all individuals and classes in Indian society.
- 21. a term referring to a ceremony at puberty whereby young males were initiated into adulthood and introduced into Indian society
- 22. The language of the Vedas
- 24. Aryan religious beliefs
Down
- 1. The priestly class
- 2. Indian social classes
- 3. teacher
- 4. a member of the warrior class
- 5. Aryan kings
- 6. a slave class consisting of prisoners of war, criminals, ethnic minorities, and other groups considered outside Indian society
- 8. Siddhartha's vision of metaphysical reality
- 9. a particular class as individuals but as part of a larger kin group
- 13. a term for the supreme god
- 14. four noble truths that lead to enlightenment
- 16. Buddhist wisdom
- 17. a ritual which was a symbol of women's subjection to men
- 20. Aryan chieftains
- 23. a simpler language derived from Sanskrit
- 25. stone towers intended to house relics of the Buddha