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Tilak (or tilaka) = a dot or mark on the forehead made with coloured powder. Karma = action, good and bad, as it is believed to determine the quality of re-birth in future lives. Surrounded by porticos and flights of stairs: harappa = people of harappa civilization were builders who lived in planned cities. Aryans : not highly organized, they were nomads rather than settled agriculturalists. Sanskrit = official language of the hindu religion. Puranas = a new collection of texts composed to extol the glories of the deities and specify the forms of worship: many hindus today revere the puranas as the 5th veda . Vedas = the four collections of hymns and ritual text that constitute the oldest and most highly. Rig-veda: indra was the most important deva in the rig-veda, yajur-veda, sama-veda, atharva-veda. Upanishads = philosophical texts in the form of reported conversations on the theory of the vedic.

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