The term __________________ has often been translated to mean “religion”, though it is a multivalent term and refers more precisely to human duties one must perform to be in accordance with Rita, the cosmic principle of order.

According to archaeological evidence, the great civilization of the Indus Valley eventually declined and moved towards the Gangetic Valley primarily due to:

The word Veda, comes from the Sanskrit root “vid”, which means _____________________.

The term _______________ refers to the divine force or energy which pervades all things in the Universe and conceived as feminine in nature. When depicted alongside her consort Shiva, they represent a symbol of total unification and the transcending of polarities, much as the Chinese Yin and Yang symbol does in Daoism.

All of following religions were born in India, EXCEPT:

Of the four interwoven orders of reality in Early Vedic religion, which one was considered essential for the proper functioning and engagement with the rest :

Which of these practices generally is NOT a part of "Folk Hinduism":

The Hindu deity _____________________________ is also known as the Mahayogi - “the Great Yogi” who all later yogis would model themselves after.

Texts such as the Upanishads, which belonged to the ascetic/renunciant traditions in the late Vedic period, emphasized all of the following EXCEPT:

The concepts of Kundalini and Chakras come from the ___________________ traditions which were often non-dualist and sought to destroy conventional morality and notions such as purity and impurity.

The Upanishadic revelation can be summed up by the following statement:

The most famous proponent of the non-dualist Advaita Vedanta school, who infamously battled Buddhist masters and converted their disciples and set up monasteries all over India, was known as:

Terms such as “mother” in English, “māter" in Greek, and mātṛ in Sanskrit point to a shared and common linguistic heritage belonging to the __________________________________________ language family.

According to the ascetic and renunciant traditions of the Upanishads, a person wanders in samsara according to one's own:

The three primary theistic branches of Hinduism in India today are centered around all of the following deities, EXCEPT:

This more Brahmanical/Vedic deity is said to come down to Earth in different avatars and ages to assist humans whenever unrighteousness reigns.

Which of the following Purusharthas was added last as part of the Brahmanical synthesis which combined Early Vedic and Upandishadic/Renunciant beliefs?

The path of Bhakti as expounded by The Bhagavad Gita emphasized all the following except:

This is the fiercest form of the goddess, the terrible master of time and death, violence, and destruction.

The cycle of birth and death, also known as transmigration, was conceived during the Upanishad period as the ever-changing field of relative existence, and is known in Sanskrit as the wheel of ________________ from which one should be liberated.