Across
- 5. a gift of money or goods paid to the groom
- 6. oral religious traditions of the Aryans
- 8. Hindus belief that soul is reborn in various forms
- 11. system of social grouping based on birth
- 12. sacred Hindu texts that help explain the ideas in the Vedas
- 14. the essential self in Hinduism
- 15. ruling monarch in a Muslim country
Down
- 1. Buddhists freedom from the cycle of brth and death
- 2. the belief that every deed in this life affects a person's fate in a future life
- 3. seasonal wind that dominates the climate of South Asia
- 4. large landmass that juts out from a continent
- 7. the duties and obligations of each caste
- 9. shrine containing the remains of the Buddha or other holy persons
- 10. Hindus true goal of life
- 13. nomadic people who migrated into the Indus Valley