Hindu Sacred Text

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2. The Bhagavad Gita is a dialogue between a warrior called Arjuna and this god (7)

4. These are epic poems which celebrate the power and work of the gods, written around 400CE (7)

8. Sruti means "what is _____" (5)

9. The sacred language of the Vedas (8)

10. The collective name for the commentaries on the Vedas, written between 1000BCE & 700BCE (9)

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1. One of the best known extracts from the Epic called Mahabharata (8,4)

3. The Bhagavad Gita is often shortened to this (3,4)

5. The Mahabharata and Ramayana are examples of the best known of these, the date written though is unknown (5)

6. ____ means knowledge (4)

7. The Rig, Yajur, Sama and Atharva are all types of these (5)

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