HOA 04 - South Asia
Cards (51)
- What are the regions in South Asia?
- A South Asian country marked by lush greenery and many waterways.
- A Buddhist kingdom on the Himalayas’ eastern edge, is known for its monasteries, fortresses (or dzongs) anddramatic landscapes that range from subtropical plains to steep mountains and valleys.
- What is the largest country in the South Asia region?
- It is the world's fifth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212.2 million, and has the world's second-largest Muslim population.
- What is the country that has been called as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean because of its shape and location?
- A 200 mile-wide broad strip of low, relatively flat land lyingbetween the Himalaya Mountains to the north and the Narmada and Mahanadi Rivers to the south.
- A relatively flat highland area that lies between the Western Ghats Mountains ranging from northwest to southeast and the Eastern Ghats Mountains ranging from northeast to southwest.
- It is a Bronze Age culture that flourished in the Indus Valley 2300 – 1500 BC
- A member of an ancient Indian people who united northern India and established an empire 320 BC; architecture from this period shows the cultural influence of Achaemenid Persia and the first use of the dressed stone.
- What is the title of Gautama Siddharata (563-483 BC), Indian philosopher, religious leader, and founder of Buddhism?
- What are the three types of structures associated with the religious architecture of early Buddhism?
- A Buddhist memorial mound erected to enshrine a relic of Buddha and to commemorate some event or mark a sacred spot.
- A finial in the form of a conventionalized umbrella, used on stupas, topes and pagodas.
- The triple umbrella on the axial mas.
- An elaborately carved, ceremonial gateway in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture, having two or three lintels between two post.
- What is the hemispherical dome of the stupa?
- What is the circular platform of a stupa?
- It is the stairway leading to the platform.
- The square platform enclosed by the railings at the summit; a smaller enclosure topping the vedika, containing the casket for the relics of Buddha, intended to be a meditational focus.
- It is a railing enclosing a sacred area, as a stupa.
- An umbrella-shaped finial symbolizing dignity, composed of a stone disk on a vertical pole.
- A Buddhist monastery in Indian architecture often excavated from solid rock, consisting of a central pillared chamber surrounded by a verandah onto which open small sleeping cells.
- This means a sacred place or object; a Buddhist shrine in India, usually carved out of solid rock on a hillside, having the form of an aisled basilica with a stupa at one end.
- It is a relic shrine, said to be the ancestral form of the pagoda.
- It is a multi-storeyed palace in Indian Architecture.
- It is a barrel-roofed pavilions in Indian Architecture.
- What is the dominant religion in India?
- It is the officially recognized gods of a people.
- What is the oldest sacred writings of Hinduism, composed between 1500 and 800 BC, incorporating four collections hymns, prayers and liturgical formulas: Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda and Atharva-Veda.
- What is the freestanding memorial pillar in Indian architecture, bearing carved inscriptions, religious emblems, or a statue?
- What is a monolithic stambha, as distinguished from one built up of stone courses?
- What is a Hindu temple called?
- A Hindu temple cut out of solid rock to resemble a chariot
- It is a sanctuary of a Hindu temple in which a deity is enshrined.
- What is the bulbous stone finial of a sikhaar?
- What is the tower of a Hindu temple that is usually tapared convexly and capped by an amalaka?
- What is a large, porch-like hall leading to a Hindu temple and used for religious dancing and music?
- It is a monumental, usually ornate gateway tower to a Hindu temple enclosure especially in southern India.
- What is the practice of creating a structure by carving it out of solid natural rock?