SOUTH ASIA PT1

• India is the largest country in the South Asia Region
• Pakistan - is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212.2 million
• Sri Lanka has been called “the pearl of the Indian ocean” because of its shape and location.
• The Himalayas the highest mountains in the world
• Indo-Gangetic Plain is a 200 mile-wide broad strip of low, relatively flat land lying between the Himalaya Mountains to the north and the Narmada and Mahanadi Rivers to the south
• Deccan Plateau is 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.
• MAURYA - A member of an ancient Indian people who united northern India and established an empire 320 BC
• Buddhism - a religion based on the Four Noble Truths
• Buddha - title of Gautama Siddharata (563-483 BC), Indian philosopher, religious leader, and founder of Buddhism
• Stupa - A Buddhist memorial mound erected to enshrine a relic of Buddha and to commemorate some event or mark a sacred spot
• TORANA - An elaborately carved, ceremonial gateway in Indian Buddhist and Hindu architecture, having two or three lintels between two posts
• ANDA - Hemispherical dome of the stupa
• MEDHI - Circular platform of a stupa
• HARMIKA - The square platform enclosed by the railings at the summit
• VEDIKA - A railing enclosing a sacred area, as a stupa
• CHATTRI - An umbrella-shaped finial symbolizing dignity, composed of a stone disk on a vertical pole
• VIHARA - A Buddhist monastery in Indian architecture often excavated from solid rock

  
• CHAITYA - Means a sacred place or object
• Hinduism - The dominant religion of India
• VEDAS - The oldest sacred writings of Hinduism
• STAMBHA - A freestanding memorial pillar in Indian architecture
• LAT - A monolithic stambha
• stambha - lat or stambha?

  
• lat - lat or stambha?

  
• MANDIRAM - A Hindu temple
• RATHA - A Hindu temple cut out of solid rock to resemble a chariot
• VIMANA - The sanctuary of a Hindu temple in which a deity is enshrined

  
• AMALAKA - The bulbous stone finial of a sikhara

  
• SIKHARA - A tower of a Hindu temple, usually tapered convexly and capped by an amalaka
• GOPURA - A monumental, usually ornate gateway tower to a Hindu temple enclosure especially in southern India

  
• GUPTA - the earliest substantial architectural remains are from this period
• DRAVIDIAN - A style of Indian architecture in the Pallava period
• INDIAN ROCK CUT ARCHITECTURE

  
• INDO ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE - Brought to India by the first Muslim conquerors
• mausoleum Gol Gumbaz

  
• Qutb Minar - five-story stone and marble tower

  
• Taj Mahal

  
• Havelis – courtyard houses of northern India and Pakistan, particularly the larger town houses