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Aryans

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An Indo-European-speaking warrior community equipped with horses, chariots, armor, and
metal weapons that invaded India from the NW c. 1500 BC

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Bhakti

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Personal deities of the Vedic tradition were combined with ideas found in Upanishads to
create devotional movements known as Bhakti

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Brahman

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Original being or essence

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Hinduism

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The term used by most Indians to refer to their religious beliefs and practices

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Indian subcontinent

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The entire region of South Asia that consists of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan

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Indus Valley

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Large geographical region in NW India and SE Pakistan where evidence was found in the
1920s of a previously unknown civilization

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Indus Valley Civilization

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Large geographical region in NW India and SE Pakistan where evidence was found in the
1920s of a previously unknown civilization

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Ramayana

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A popular epic which predated the emergence of full-blown Bhakti

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Rig Veda

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A popular epic which predated the emergence of full-blown Bhakti

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Suttee

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The Hindu practice of expecting widows to accompany their husbands to
the grave, often by cremating them on the husband’s funeral pyre

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Bhagavad Gita

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Regarded by many, including Gandhi, as the most important of all Hindu religious
books. [[This book is but a part of the Mahabharata.]]

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Brahma

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A Hindu god who is the sustaining force behind all things

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Brahmins

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A class of Hindu holy men who are priests

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Diwali

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The most popular Hindu feast; a festival of lights which is celebrated around the fall with
lanterns and fireworks

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Hanuman

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The divine monkey king in Ramayana

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Hare Krishna

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The most famous Hindu religious organization in the Western world

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Karma

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The belief that all things are embraced by a universal law of cause and effect that stretches
through time

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Krishna

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A Hindu god who is central in the story of the Mahabharata

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Mahabarata

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An enormously long epic depicting the trials of descendants of Bharata and of the
Great War between the Kauravas and Pandavas clans

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Puja

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The offering of food, drink, and devotion to images of deities found in Hindu homes

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Puranaa

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Represent the popular expression of Hindu piety; written works that glorify gods, provide
lineages, and develop rich mythology supplementing epics

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Ramayana

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Shortest of Hindu epics, it forms the basis of plays, dances, and numerous artistic
expressions

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Rsis

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Seers who transmitted the content of the Vedas without human intervention, simply reciting
the divine revelation

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Sacred Books of the East

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Max Müller’s fifty-volume work published between 1879 and 1894
established the study of Indian religions in universities of Europe/North America

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Sakti
Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and their female consorts—pairs of leading gods who represent the vital forces of creation in Indian thought. [[KR: This definition is poor. Think of “Shakti” as the feminine divine energy and, then, as the goddess associated with a god.]]
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Samsara
The ever-turning wheel of time in Hinduism to which all living things are bound
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Shiva
Along with Brahma and Vishnu at the top of the Hindu hierarchy of gods as a trinity of beings
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Smri
What is remembered and taught in Hindu religion
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Upanishads
The interpretive texts that explain the meaning of all other Hindu literature; interprets and reinterprets Vedic and epic themes; written as conversations
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Varanas
Social divisions, castes, in Hindu society, believed to originally be based on racial differences expressed in terms of skin color
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Veda
Veda means "knowledge"; a written document or collection thereof; four main collections of Vedas constitute the Vedic corpus; and are authoritative
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Vedanta
The dominant school of Indian philosophy and by far the best known in the West
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Vishnu
A Hindu god whose existence takes many forms
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Yoga Sutras
A systematic interpretation of the practice of Yoga making clear the significance of Yoga that develops out of the Upanishads
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Prabhupada
(1896-1977) one of Hindu's greatest missionaries in the twentieth century; established Hare Krishna in America in 1966
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Ram Mohan Roy
One of the first and most influential Hindu reformers (1772-1833) who founded the Divine Society in 1828 and sought to remove suttee from Hinduism
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Ramakrishna
(1836-1886) provided modern Hindus with a contemporary creed to live by in the modern world
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Sankara
Hindu philosopher (788-838) who helped develop Vedanta
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Sanskrit
Most classical Hindu texts are written in this artificial language created for a literary task; this gives us a clue to their dating, but nothing more
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Sutras
The writings of the six orthodox Hindu schools of philosophy
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Vivekanada
Disciple of Ramakrishna who advanced the notion that behind the illusory nature of our world lies its true reality.
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Ashram
community of mystics following one teacher
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Ascetic
characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
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Atman
the soul of all beings
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Avatars
Incarnations
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Avidya
Ignorance
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Dharma
Social responsibility depending on caste
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Maya
the illusion that reality consists of many particular things
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Moksha
escape from the Karma-enforced cycle of death and rebirth
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Yoga
means for uniting with the divine

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