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| 5818824446 | untouchables | low social caste in Hindi culture; performed tasks that were considered polluting-street sweepin, removal of human waste, and tanning | 0 | |
| 5818824447 | transmigration | belief in a number of indian religious traditions that the souls of living creatures persisted in supernatural realms and returned to inhabit other humans or animals after death | 1 | |
| 5818824448 | Ramayana | one of the great epic tales from classical india; traces adventures of King Rama and his wife, Sita; written 4th to 2nd centuries bce | 2 | |
| 5818824449 | Mauryas | dynasty established in indian subcontinent in 4th century bce following invasion of alex the great | 3 | |
| 5818824450 | Arthashastra | political treatise written during reign of Chandragupta Maurya; advocated use of spies and assassins, bribery, and scientific forms of warfare | 4 | |
| 5818824451 | Kushanas | dynasty that succeeded mauryans; promoted buddhism | 5 | |
| 5818824452 | gurus | originally refered to as brahmans who served as teachers for the princes of the imperial court of the Guptas | 6 | |
| 5818824453 | Tamil | spoken indian language used other than sanskrit | 7 | |
| 5818824454 | dharma | the caste position and career determined by a person's birth; hindu culture required that one accept one's social position and perform occupation to the best of one's ability in order to have a better situation in the next life | 8 | |
| 5818824455 | reincarnation | the successinve attachment of the soul to some animate form according to merits earned in previous lives | 9 | |
| 5818824456 | Buddha | Siddhartha Gautama; founder of Buddhism | 10 | |
| 5818824457 | Chandragupta | founder of mauryan dynasty; established first empire in indian subcontinent; first centralized government since the Harrapan civilization | 11 | |
| 5818824458 | Ashoka | grandson of Chandragupta; completed conquest of indian subcontinent; converted to buddhism and sponsered spread of new religion throughout hos empire | 12 | |
| 5818824459 | Upanishads | later books of the vedas; contained sophisticated and sublime philosophical ideas; utilized by brahmans to restore religious athority | 13 | |
| 5818824460 | mandala | cosmic diagram; part of the hindu belief system | 14 | |
| 5818824461 | Kamasutra | written by Vatsayana during Gupta era; offered instruction on all aspects of life for higher caste males, invluding grooming, hygiene, etiquette, selection of wives, and lovemaking | 15 | |
| 5818824462 | karma | the sum of merots accumulated by a soul at any given point in time; determined the caste to which the soul would be assigned in the next life | 16 | |
| 5818824463 | Mahabharata | indian epic of war, peoncely honor, love, and social duty; written down in the last centuries bce; previously handed down in oral form | 17 | |
| 5818824464 | Nirvana | the buddhist state of enlightenment, a state of tranquility | 18 | |
| 5818824465 | Maurya Kautilya | political advisor to Chandragupta Mauyra; one of the authors of Artashastra; believed in scientific application of warfare | 19 | |
| 5818824466 | stupas | stone shrines built to house pieces of bone or hair and personal possessions said to be relics of the Buddha; preserved buddhist architectural form | 20 | |
| 5818824467 | Guptas | dynasty that succeeded the Kushans in the 3rd century bce; built empire that extended to all but the southern regions of indian subcontinent; less centralized than mauyran empire | 21 | |
| 5818824468 | Sanskrit | the sacred and classical indian language | 22 | |
| 5818824469 | Skanda Gupta | last of the able rulers of the gupta dynasty; following his 5th century reign, the empire dissolved under the pressure of nomadic invasions | 23 |
