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- 1. A ritual of devotional worship involving offerings of flowers, incense, and food to a deity (sociofact)
- 3. The Hindu festival of lights celebrating the triumph of good over evil (sociofact)
- 5. The ultimate, unchanging universal reality underlying all existence in Hindu philosophy (mentifact)
- 6. The oldest and most sacred scriptures of Hinduism, composed in Sanskrit (artifact)
- 7. The law of cause and effect — one's actions in this life shape future lives (mentifact)
- 10. A spiritual and physical practice originating in Hinduism, aimed at achieving union with the divine (sociofact)
- 13. The sacred river in northern India, believed to cleanse sins and central to Hindu pilgrimage (artifact)
- 14. An earthly incarnation of a deity, especially the god Vishnu (mentifact)
- 15. The individual soul or self in Hindu philosophy, said to be identical to Brahman (mentifact)
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- 2. The principle of nonviolence toward all living things, central to Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist ethics (mentifact)
- 4. A Hindu temple used for worship, housing images of deities (artifact)
- 8. Liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth; the ultimate spiritual goal in Hinduism (mentifact)
- 9. The endless cycle of death, rebirth, and redeath from which Hindus seek liberation (mentifact)
- 11. The hereditary social class system historically associated with Hinduism in South Asia (sociofact)
- 12. The concept of cosmic order and one's religious and moral duty in Hinduism (mentifact)