Origins
Basic Beliefs
Practices, Rituals and Symbols
Festivals and Milestones
Branches and Sacred Writings
100
The language of the Aryans.
What is Sanskirt?
100
Atman.
What is the human soul or spirit?
100
A common form of home worship in which offerings are made to the deities.
What is Puja?
100
Takes place on the day before the new moon in February.
What is Mahashivaratri?
100
The longest poem in the world. It has 100,000 verses.
What is the Mahabharata?
200
These two groups laid the foundation for Hinduism.
What are the Indus Valley Civilization, and the Aryan Civilization?
200
The endless cycle of rebirth, or reincarnation.
What is Samsara?
200
Flowers, fruits, incense sticks, water, milk, clarified butter, and a lamp are all used as ______.
What are offerings to the Gods?
200
Normally celebrated over five days at the end of October or the beginning of November.
What is Diwali?
200
The Rig-Veda ,Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda.
What are the four Vedas?
300
The present-day country where the Indus Valley located.
What is present day Pakistan?
300
The totality of one’s actions in life determines the form that an individual will take when he or she is reborn.
What is Karma?
300
Hindu prayers and hymns are called _____.
What are Bhajans?
300
Spring festival during March, on the full moon day of the last month in the Hindu calendar.
What is Holi?
300
Vaishnavism (Vishnu), Shaivism (Shiva), Shaktism (Devi) and Smartism.
What are the four major traditions/denominations in modern Hinduism?
400
They created the Vedas and Upanishads.
Who are the Aryans?
400
The four paths to Salvation.
What are Bhakti ,Karma ,Jnana, and Raja?
400
India’s holiest city to Hindus, Jainism, and Buddhism. Also referred to as the City of Lights.
What is Varanasi (Benares)?
400
The naming of a child.
What is Namakaran or horoscope?
400
Human-made literature, or knowledge that is “remembered”.
What is Smriti?
500
What the Aryans added to Hinduism.
What are poems, sacred texts, and philosophy?
500
In Hindu thought, the physical world in which we live is temporary, ever changing, and artificial.This imperfect world is referred to as ______.
What is Maya?
500
A ritual that involves the burning of offerings in a fire that has been blessed by a priest.
What is Homa?
500
In Hinduism, each step, or rite of passage, is called_____.
What is Samskara?
500
Knowledge that is revealed or “discovered”/heard by the wise men of Hinduism.
What is Shruti?
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