SOUTH ASIA PT1

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  • 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