Important+Indian+Terms

Important Terms:


 * Theatre State -** A state that acquires power and wealth by developing attractive culture and staging elaborate public rituals, which bind the subjects into loyalty

Vedic Religions


 * Brahmin** - A word used to talk about the most powerful God in Hinduism/ A Priest/ or High Noble


 * Kshatriyas** - Warriors


 * Vaisyas** - Workers


 * Sudra** - Servants


 * Unotuchables** - People who worked with the dead or waste/ Dirty things]


 * Karma** - The Indian religious concept in which your actions determine what reincarnation you will be placed in after your current death
 * Good positions Ex: Being Human if you were good in a past life
 * Bad positions Ex: An ant or beetle if you were bad in a past life
 * Was used to keep the population at bay

**Kama** - Pleasure

**Artha** - Weallth

**Dharma** - Duty

**Moksha** - Liberation

**Nirvana** - Peace of Mind/ Snuffing out of a candle


 * Bodhisahvas ** - Enlightened People

Red words are concepts of Hinduism Blue words are concepts of Buddhism