ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF INDIA TERMINOLOGY

Pregunta	Respuesta
SHILPA	art and craft
SHASTRA	rules science and basic knowledge
RASA THEORY	the viewer's essence must be moved enough in order for something to be considered art
RASIKA	the viewer
NATYA SHASTRA	the science of dance
DHARMA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE)	virtue
ARTHA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE)	wealth
KAMA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE)	love
MOKSHA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE)	liberation
VEDA	knowledge
RIGVEDA	text from 1300 BCE 10 hymns by Indra (war) and Agni (fire)
ARYA	noble
MANTRA	a verse
MUDRA	gesture
BRAHMIN	vedic priest
KSHATRIYA	vedic warrior
VAISHYA	vedic merchant
SHUDRA	vedic manual laborer
THE BUDDHA	came from the SHAKYA clan found enlightment under pipal/bodhi tree gave first sermon in deer park four signs- age, sickness, death, renunciation
DHAMMA	Buddhist Doctrine
SAMGHA	buddhist monastic community
BHIKKU	Buddhist monks
STUPA	mound or heap of earth
PRADAKSHINA	circumambulation
VIHARA	Bhuddist Monastary
CHAITYA GRIHA	prayer hall
CHATTRA	The umbrella on top of a stupa which symbolizes the pipal tree under which the Buddha found enlightenment.
HARMIKA	Fence around the chattra on a stupa.
TORANA	Gates found around the stupa in the four cardinal directions which symbolize the far reaching scope of Bhuddism.

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