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Across
  1. 1. a sanskrit word meaning “awakened”; the name given to the man who founded Buddhism
  2. 4. goods or money given to the poor
  3. 7. the belief that a person’s soul is reborn into a new body after death
  4. 9. a concept founded in Hinduism and other Indian traditions that the good and evil done in a past life determines what happens to that person’s soul in the next life
  5. 10. a large landmass that is smaller than a continent
Down
  1. 2. an ancient Indian language
  2. 3. a social group that does a particular job that a person is born into. There are thousand of jatis
  3. 5. a strong wind that brings heavy rain to southern Asia in the summer
  4. 6. the Hindu concept that people are born with a set of skills that help them serve one of the four general needs of a functioning society
  5. 8. divisions of society that are kept strictly separate and treated differently