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- 3. / a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle.
- 4. / each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status
- 5. / the principle of non injury to living beings.
- 8. / a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
- 10. / an ancient Indic language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian languages are derived.
- 11. Road / an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea.
- 14. / the rebirth of a soul in a new body.
- 15. / the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
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- 1. / the teaching or religion of the Buddha.
- 2. / an Indian king or prince.
- 6. / a large, relatively self-contained landmass forming a subdivision of a continent
- 7. / a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism.
- 9. / a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
- 12. / action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman.
- 13. city / A community that is carefully planned.