Ancient Indian Culture and History

What is the name of the path taught by the Buddha for release from suffering?

What is the term used to describe the southern style of temple architecture in ancient India?

Which Jaina sect is literally known as 'sky-clad'?

What is the term used to describe a megalithic chamber tomb that is partly underground?

What is the name of the goddess often represented with two elephants, sometimes holding jars in their trunks?

What is the term used to describe the study of inscriptions?

Which of the following is a family of languages that includes Sanskrit, Tamil, and many other languages of Asia and Europe?

What is the term used to describe the burial of disaggregated bones?

What is the term used to describe a word with several meanings including caste, birth, and type?

What is the term used to describe a type of prepared core technique used to make stone tools?

What is the term for the doctrine that actions have consequences in present and future lives?

Which ancient script was prevalent in the north-west of India?

What is the term for a local centre of exchange in early medieval South India?

What is the name of the Mahayana school founded by Nagarjuna?

What is the term for the urban phase of the Harappan culture?

What is the term for the measurement and arrangement of coins by weight?

What is the name of the northern style of temple architecture?

What is the term for the leading men of the nadu in early medieval South India?

What is the term for the female serpent deities in ancient Indian mythology?

What is the term for the liberation from the cycle of birth and death?

What is the term used to describe the release from the cycle of rebirth?

Which Jaina school is literally translated as 'clad in white'?

What is the term used to describe a Buddhist monastery?

What is the term used to describe the worship of ancestors at a particular time of the year?

What is the term used to describe the guild of merchants?

What is the term used to describe the 'ford-maker' in Jainism?

What is the term used to describe the language in which the Buddhist Canon of the Theravada sect was recorded?

What is the term used to describe the Jaina doctrine of the manifold nature of reality?

What is the term used to describe the 'looking at' or logical reasoning?

What is the term used to describe the ceremonial hall or assembly of the Jainas?