Ancient India Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. Teacher
  2. 6. essential quality or character, as of the cosmos or one's own nature.
  3. 7. True and total peace
  4. 8. in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text.
  5. 9. a person who has attained prajna, or Enlightenment, but who postpones Nirvana in order to help others to attain Enlightenment
  6. 13. A mandala is a geometric configuration of symbols
  7. 14. one of the two principal Vedantic schools, asserting the existence of Brahman alone, whose appearance as the world is an illusion resulting from ignorance
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  1. 1. The highest social caste
  2. 3. Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation
  3. 4. the spiritual life principle of the universe, especially when regarded as inherent in the real self of the individual.
  4. 5. any of several books of esoteric doctrine regarding rituals, disciplines, meditation, etc., composed in the form of dialogues between Shiva and his Shakti
  5. 10. the process of coming into existence as a differentiated, mortal creature
  6. 11. the discipline and practice of this sect.
  7. 12. selfless devotion as a means of reaching Brahman
  8. 15. a member of a class of divine beings in the Vedic period, which in Indian religion are benevolent and in Zoroastrianism are evil. (a god)