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- 1. sanitary sewer is an underground pipe or tunnel system for transporting sewage from houses and commercial buildings to a sewage treatment plant or disposal.
- 4. a principal administrative division of certain countries or empires.
- 7. a fortress, typically on high ground, protecting or dominating a city.
- 9. strong wind in southeast asia
- 10. a pilgrim's journey.
- 12. an area of relatively high ground.
- 13. the most ancient Hindu scriptures, written in early Sanskrit and containing hymns, philosophy, and guidance on ritual for the priests of Vedic religion.
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- 1. an ancient Indo-European language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian (Indic) languages are derived.
- 2. a person or animal in whom a particular soul is believed to have been reborn.
- 3. the complex sacrificial religion that emerged in post-Vedic India ( c. 900 BC) under the influence of the dominant priesthood (Brahmans), an early stage in the development of Hinduism.
- 5. (in Buddhism) 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.
- 6. a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight.
- 8. each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.
- 11. a storehouse for threshed grain.