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Monsoon
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winds
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Polytheism
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believes in more then one god
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Polygamy
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having more than one spouse at a time
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Suttee
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the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
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Vedas
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any of the most ancient sacred writings of Hinduism written in early Sanskrit; traditionally believed to comprise the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, and the Upanishads
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Reincarnation
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the belief that you are brought back into the world as a new person again
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Caste
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(Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity
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Meditation
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continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; "the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge"
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Gupta
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Gupta is a common surname of Indian origin.
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