Vickers' Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Plateau High area covering most of Southern India
  2. 5. Located in south-central Asia (Mt. Everest)
  3. 8. Set of guidelines to escape suffering
  4. 9. Siddhartha Gautama founded this faith
  5. 11. Process of birth, life, death, rebirth
  6. 13. books of knowledge
  7. 14. Main principles of Buddhism
  8. 18. Small particles moved by wind, water, or ice
  9. 19. Languages of Pakistan
  10. 21. Famous Hindu temple
  11. 22. Fundamentalists who ruled Afghanistan prior to 9/11
  12. 23. A group of islands (Hawaii)
Down
  1. 1. Commonly used to make twine
  2. 2. World's oldest organized religion
  3. 4. Found at the mouth of the river
  4. 6. Large land mass; own geographic identity
  5. 7. Large ancient cities in the Indus Valley
  6. 10. Official language of Pakistan
  7. 12. Inherited social class
  8. 15. Classical language of India/Hinduism
  9. 16. Seasonal winds that bring great amounts of rain
  10. 17. Ancient ethnic group in Cambodia
  11. 20. Plains Area between Himalaya Mts. and Southern India
  12. 24. Ethnic group that settled in India from Northern Europe