30 Questions
What is the name of the path taught by the Buddha for release from suffering?
Eight-fold Path
What is the term used to describe the southern style of temple architecture in ancient India?
Dravida
Which Jaina sect is literally known as 'sky-clad'?
Digambara
What is the term used to describe a megalithic chamber tomb that is partly underground?
Dolmenoid cist
What is the name of the goddess often represented with two elephants, sometimes holding jars in their trunks?
Gaja-Lakshmi
What is the term used to describe the study of inscriptions?
Epigraphy
Which of the following is a family of languages that includes Sanskrit, Tamil, and many other languages of Asia and Europe?
Indo-European
What is the term used to describe the burial of disaggregated bones?
Fractional burial
What is the term used to describe a word with several meanings including caste, birth, and type?
Jati
What is the term used to describe a type of prepared core technique used to make stone tools?
Discoid core technique
What is the term for the doctrine that actions have consequences in present and future lives?
Karma
Which ancient script was prevalent in the north-west of India?
Kharoshthi
What is the term for a local centre of exchange in early medieval South India?
Mandapika
What is the name of the Mahayana school founded by Nagarjuna?
Madhayamaka
What is the term for the urban phase of the Harappan culture?
Mature Harappan
What is the term for the measurement and arrangement of coins by weight?
Metrology
What is the name of the northern style of temple architecture?
Nagara style
What is the term for the leading men of the nadu in early medieval South India?
Nattar
What is the term for the female serpent deities in ancient Indian mythology?
Naginis
What is the term for the liberation from the cycle of birth and death?
Moksha
What is the term used to describe the release from the cycle of rebirth?
Nirvana
Which Jaina school is literally translated as 'clad in white'?
Shvetambara
What is the term used to describe a Buddhist monastery?
Vihara
What is the term used to describe the worship of ancestors at a particular time of the year?
Shraddha
What is the term used to describe the guild of merchants?
Shreni
What is the term used to describe the 'ford-maker' in Jainism?
Tirthankara
What is the term used to describe the language in which the Buddhist Canon of the Theravada sect was recorded?
Pali
What is the term used to describe the Jaina doctrine of the manifold nature of reality?
Anekantavada
What is the term used to describe the 'looking at' or logical reasoning?
Anvikshiki
What is the term used to describe the ceremonial hall or assembly of the Jainas?
Sabha
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