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48 Cards in this Set
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Where is Ahyodya located?
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Kosala
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King of Ayhodya
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Dasa-ratha
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Wife of Vishnu
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Lakshmi
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four sons of the King
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Rama, Bharata, Lakshmana, Satrugna
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The age when Rama was asked to stop the Rakshasas
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16
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What makes Rama enter a competition to win Sita
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King Janaka asks him to after he defeats an army of Rakshasas.
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Father of Sita
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King Janaka
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who marries Sita's sisters
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Lakshmana
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who convinces Bharata's mother that Bharata should be king?
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the nursemaid
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how long after Rama left did Dasa-ratha die?
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5 days
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what Bharata does when Rama won't go back
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he puts Rama's sandals on the throne and lives as a hermit
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who falls in love with rama
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Ravana's sister
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What Lakshmana does to stop Ravana's sister
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cuts off her nose and ears
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how many does Ravana send when he sees his sister injured?
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14, then 14000
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Ravana's advisor who appears as a deer
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Maricha
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What does Sita do when she's being kidnapped?
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She gives monkeys her jewels and golden veil.
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king of monkeys
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Sugriva
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monkeys can change this
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their shape
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Hanuman is the
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best monkey warrior, son of the wind, invincible.
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Rama gives Hanuman what to give to sita?
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a ring
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mightest Rakashasa warrior
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Kumbha-Karna
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Ravana's brother
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Vibhishana
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Rama uses his arrow to kill Ravana
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Brahma's
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Hanuman asks Rama if he can
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live on earth as long as people tell of his deeds
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Sita becomes pregnant after these many years
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10,000
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teachers of Sita's sons
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Valmiki
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god of fire
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Agni
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Creator, Destroyer, Preserver?
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Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva
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Castes?
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Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vyasas, Sundras
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moksha
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released from the cycle of rebirth
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atman
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soul (?)
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Pandava
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could not be with his wife and theirfore could not make a son for his throne, but actually did have children through gods
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Sons of Pandava
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Yudhistira- Dharma
Bhima- strongest Arjuna- best warrior Nakula- twin, pretty. Sahadeva- twin, pretty. |
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Mahabharata translated
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Story of bharata's descendants
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The real battle of the Mahabharata was over today's
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Delhi
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author of epic Mahabharata
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Vyasa or "compiler"
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Mahabharata struggle over the kingdom of
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Kurushetra
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the Kauravas who makes Yudhistra gamble
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Duryodhana
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wife won by arjuna
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draupadi
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king of the kauravas
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Dhritarashtra
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Bhagavad-Gita
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part of the Mahabharata of a convo between Arjuna and Krishna
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the god who is Arjunas charioteer
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Krishna
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Panchatantra
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story about right and warmminded
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"world wisdom"
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niti
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eigrams
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brief, clever verses that often contain a moral
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literally, Bhagavad-Gita
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song of the lord
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Krishna is the god _____
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vishnu
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writer of the Ramayana
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Valmiki
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