Across
- 2. an area of relatively level high ground.
- 5. an ancient Indo-Aryan language that is the classical language of India and of Hinduism
- 6. a collection of poems or hymns composed in archaic Sanskrit by Indo-European-speaking peoples who lived in northwest India during the 2nd millennium BCE
- 7. a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia
- 9. one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members
- 10. the complex sacrificial religion that emerged in post-Vedic India ( c. 900 BC) under the influence of the dominant priesthood
- 11. a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires.
- 13. a fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city.
- 14. an underground pipe or tunnel system for transporting______from houses and commercial buildings
Down
- 1. having been reborn in another body.
- 3. blowing out" or "quenching" of the activities of the worldly mind and its related suffering
- 4. a storehouse for threshed grain
- 8. a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good
- 12. a slowly moving mass or river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles.