Hinduism Vocab
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- Auspicious
- lucky, points to good fortune
- Brahman
- highest caste in India
- Cast
- rigid class system in India
- Dal
- Indian food, like lentils
- Dowry
- money or gift a girl’s family gives the boy’s family if their son will marry the girl
- Embroidery
- Sewed onto a quilt or cloth
- Ganges
- holy mother river which flows through northeast India, hidus believe it has healing power, and the try to go once in their lifetime
- Ghat
- wide stairs leading down to the Holy Ganges
- Ghee
- animal fat of butter
- Hindi
- the major language of India
- Iron monger
- Iron dealer
- Kilo
- basic weight unit of the metric system
- Krishna
- one major God of Hinduism
- Mantra
- word or phrase repeated over and over again so you can focus on prayer
- Masala
- spicy mix
- Namaskar
- the action of saying namasty, namasty- it means hello, goodbye(any greeting) (God in me honors the god in you)
- Rupee
- basic money in India (48 rupee= 1.00) (1 rupee= 2 cents)
- Sari
- formal dress worn by Indian women
- Skein
- a holder of yarn
- Tikka mark
- cosmetic dot which many Indian women ware on their forehead between their eyes
- Untouchable
- lowest caste in India
- Varanasi
- aka Benares- most popular pilgrimage town when visiting the Ganges
- Vedas
- ancient Hindu holy scriptures
- Vrindavan
- city of widows