Vocabulary of India

the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation

• Nirvana

• Theology

• Hinduism

• Taoism

An Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea

• Nile River

• Tigris river

• Indus river

• Yellow river

A hereditary social class

• Caste

• Rank

• Order

• Class

A body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils

• Buddhism

• Hinduism

• Polytheistic

• Monotheistic

Ancient language of India

• Kryptonian

• Hieroglyphic

• Cuneiform

• Sanskrit

Seasonal wind in southern Asia

• Hurricane

• Typhoon

• Monsoon

• Kamikaze

Prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European

• Neolithic

• Paleolithic

• Aryan

• Ganges

Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher

• Sensai

• Guru

• Professor

• Preacher

The highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category

• Brahman

• Vishnu

• Hindi

Founder of Buddhism; worshipped as a god

• Andes

• Ashoka

• Siddhartha

• Patton