Hindu Vocabulary
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What is Vocabulary?
by Lauren Ayube
Vocabulary is the knowledge of words and what they mean. Learning and using new vocabulary is something that continues and expands throughout our lives, and is way more than simply looking up and memorizing a definition.
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Storyboard Description
Have students illustrate key vocabulary from their social studies or history units!
Storyboard Text
- GANESHA
- BRAHMA
- AHIMSA
- Ganesha, Ganesh, or Ganapati, is the elephant-headed Hindu god of beginnings, who is traditionally worshipped before embarking on a new enterprise. He is the patron of intellectuals, bankers, scribes, and authors. He is also a remover of obstacles.
- The first god in the Hindu triumvirate, Brahma is known as the Creator. The other two gods are Vishnu the Preserver and Shiva the Destroyer. Brahma's job was creation of the world and all its creatures.
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- (in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist tradition) Ahimsa means respect for all living things and avoidance of violence toward others.
- HINDUISM VOCABULARY
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