Across
- 7. people who write
- 9. ____ was thrown into stepwells in some areas after they fell into disuse
- 11. ancient collection of sacred text
- 13. an important writer from the Gupta period
- 15. essential part in the religious and social lives of people in India
- 16. a lot of religious art was carved from/in ____
- 17. founder of Buddhism
- 21. another word for a number or symbol
- 24. the country that occupied India and found stepwells unsanitary
- 26. another word for scientist who specializes in metal
- 28. consists of many battles
- 29. to get to the bottom of a stepwell you must descend a ____
- 30. a flap of skin was cut from here to preform an Indian nose job
Down
- 1. the steel from ancient India was exported in the form of these
- 2. what happened to some Hindu religious inscriptions
- 3. zero enabled the Indians to study higher ____
- 4. the type of metal used for weapons like the Damascus sword
- 5. name of the emperor who got an Indian nose job after his was cut off
- 6. aka gods or goddesses
- 8. noses were a ____ symbol of pride and common targets in battle
- 10. also called a nose job
- 12. ancient surgeon and author of a Sanskrit text detailing surgical procedures
- 14. Indians called negative numbers ____
- 18. what Indians called positive numbers
- 19. the first or these were only placeholders
- 20. people went to dance, sing, and socialize (often celebrating something)
- 22. he asks Krishna questions and prepares for battle in the Bhagavad Gita
- 23. the steel was being produced at almost what scale
- 25. earliest known ____ reference to steel in ancient India
- 27. some stepwells were used as ____