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- 3. a preceptor giving personal religious instruction.
- 4. a river flowing SE from the Himalayas in N India into the Bay of Bengal
- 5. a person usually from an old, respected family who, because of wealth and social position, wields considerable social, economic, and political power.
- 7. an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India.
- 8. a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler
- 9. an epithet of Buddha meaning “he who has attained his goal.”.
- 11. the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
- 13. freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering
- 15. a river in S Asia, flowing from W Tibet through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea.
- 17. a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group
- 18. a king or prince in India.
- 19. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation.
- 20. the common religion of India.
- 21. a village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.
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- 1. Buddha.
- 2. a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet.
- 5. a religion, originated in India by Buddha
- 6. a large landmass, as Greenland, that is smaller than any of the usually recognized continents.
- 10. an archaeological site in Pakistan, near the Indus River: six successive ancient cities were built here.
- 12. the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter.
- 14. Ethnology-a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.
- 16. a constitutional monarchy in the Himalayas between N India and Tibet.
- 17. essential quality or character, as of the cosmos or one's own nature.