India Vocabulary

1. a person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons.
5. 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. It represents the final goal of Buddhism.
8. a large, distinguishable part of a continent, such as North America or southern Africa.
9. the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
11. an ancient Indic language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian languages are derived.
12. a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation,
13. characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
14. each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.

2. the rebirth of a soul in a new body.
3. in Hinduism the principle of cosmic order. OR the principle of cosmic order.
4. city, is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area.
6. an Indian king or prince.
7. a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia,
10. (in the Hindu, Buddhist,)the principle of nonviolence toward all living things.
15. road, an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian