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- A place of religious retreat for Hindus
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- A Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred
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- One of two classical Hindu epics telling of the banishment of Rama from his kingdom and
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- A later sacred text of Hinduism of a mystical nature dealing with metaphysical questions (plural)
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- Hindu god of wisdom or prophecy
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- The auspicious one
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- Any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit (plural)
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- A terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world
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- The name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups
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- The triad of divinities of later Hinduism
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- Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India (plural)
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- The endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth
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- An Asian river
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- A member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas
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- In Hinduism, the monkey god and helper of Rama
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- A hereditary social class among Hindus
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