Asian Civilization

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Across
  1. 2. / Preserver
  2. 5. / Means "perfect happiness"
  3. 8. / Introduced Armaic writing to the Indus Valley
  4. 9. / Destroyer
  5. 12. / "Golden Age of India"
  6. 17. / former Hindu practice of a widow throwing herself onto her husband's funeral pyre
  7. 18. / Second highest class in the Caste System
  8. 21. / Invaded the the Indus Valley in 2,000BC
  9. 22. / seclusion of women at home and wearing a veil in public
  10. 23. / Vedic literature; instructions for hermits in the forests
  11. 25. / Founder of Buddhism
  12. 27. / Shorter Sanskrit epic
  13. 29. / Location of Taj Mahal
  14. 30. / India's greatest dramatist
Down
  1. 1. / Where Indian Civilization began
  2. 3. / World's oldest organized religion
  3. 4. / a merger between Islam and Hindu
  4. 6. / Belief in multiple gods
  5. 7. / paved the way for Indian unity
  6. 10. / Vedic literature; instructions given by a father to his son
  7. 11. / Longest epic poem in the world
  8. 13. / brought to India by the Muslims
  9. 14. / One of the two branches of Hinduism
  10. 15. / first Hindu empire
  11. 16. / Vedic literature; composed of hymns, prayers, rituals, magic, & poetry
  12. 19. / built the Taj Mahal
  13. 20. / Vedic literature; composed of prose texts containing observations on religious rites
  14. 24. / chief Hindu God
  15. 25. / founder of the mogul empire
  16. 26. / Wrote Ramayana
  17. 28. / greater Mauryan emperor