Images:

Map, Location of Gandhara Graves, Painted Grey Ware Sites, and Southern Megalithic region, 1200-400 BC

Map, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka

Objects from copper hoard sites, Antennae sword, 1200-400 BC

Ashokan pillar, Lauriya Nandangarh, stone, Mauryan, 246 BC

Lion capital (from an Ashokan pillar), sandstone, c. 250 BC

Detail of Lion: Front View, Lion Capital, Sarnath, sandstone, Mauryan, c. 250 BC

Detail, Lion profile, Lion capital, Sarnath, sandstone, Mauryan, c. 250 BC

Drum detail: Bull, Lion capital, Sarnath, sandstone, Mauryan, c. 3rd c. BC

Drum detail: Elephant, Lion capital, Sarnath,

sandstone, Mauryan, c. 3rd c. BC

Drum detail: Horse, Lion capital, Sarnath, sandstone, Mauryan, 3rd c. BC

Drum detail : Lion, Lion capital, Sarnath, sandstone, Mauryan, c. 250 BC

Wheel fragments, Lion capital, Sarnath, sandstone, Mauryan, c. 250 BC

Lion pillar stump, Inscribed shaft, Sarnath, sandstone, Mauryan, c. 250 BC

Teaching Buddha, Sarnath, sandstone, 5th c.

Bronze Pedestal from Treasury, Persepolis, c. 1000 BC

Bull capital, Rampurva, sandstone, Mauryan, c. 250 BC

Front view, chauri-bearer, Didarganj, polished sandstone, Mauryan, 1st-2nd c. AD

Detail, Proper left profile, chauri -bearer, Didarganj, polished sandstone, Mauryan , 1st-2nd c. AD

Detail, Head, chauri-bearer, Didarganj, polished sandstone, Mauryan, 1st-2nd c. AD

Detail, Upper part, chauri-bearer, Didarganj, polished sandstone, Mauryan, 1st-2nd c. AD

Back view, Upper part, chauri-bearer, Didarganj, polished sandstone, Mauryan, 1st-2nd c. AD

Detail, Belly and hips, chauri-bearer, Didarganj, polished sandstone, Mauryan, 1st-2nd c. AD

Yakshi encircled by serpents, grey terracotta, Kushan, 1st-2nd c. AD

Terms:

Arya (noble ones)
Veda (knowledge)
Rig Veda
Brahmin
Kshatriya
Vaishya
Shudra
dasa
Mahavira
Jainism
Siddharta
Buddhism
Shakya clan
Sanskrit
Prakrit
Eightfold Path
Buddha
Bodhi Tree
Stupa
Maurya
Chandragupta
Ashoka
Ashokan Pillar
Lauriya Nandangarh
Monolith
Abacus
Sarnath
Didarganj
chauri-bearer
Yakshi
Ganga/Ganges River
Pataliputra (modern city of Patna)