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Question

A thread is cut when Brāhmin, Kṣatriya, and Vaiśya men celebrate the Upanayana ceremony to mark a second, spiritual kind of this event, cementing their status as dvija. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this type of event celebrated during the Krishna-centric festival of Janmashtami. Souls in samsara experience this event after death.

ANSWER: birth [or birthdays; or rebirths; accept birth of Krishna; accept reincarnation]

[10h] The Upanayana ceremony initiates people into brahmacharya, the first of these Hindu life stages. In the fourth and last of these life stages, people become renunciates in pursuit of moksha.

ANSWER: Āśrama [or ashrama]

[10m] This sutra, which is named after the third puruṣārtha, describes desires that should be pursued in the second stage of life. This sutra shares its name with a god who was incinerated by Shiva’s third eye.

ANSWER: Kama Sutra

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	3	23.33	100%	100%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

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Harvard	Brown	10	0	10	20
I've been running into you in my lead plumbocene what could have benzene	MIT A	10	0	0	10
Brandeis	MIT B	10	0	0	10
RIT	Yale	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Maryland C	10	10	0	20
JHU A	Columbia B	10	0	10	20
Maryland B	John Jay	10	0	0	10
Maryland A	NYU B	10	0	0	10
Mount Sinai	JHU B	10	0	0	10
NYU A	Swarthmore	10	0	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan A	10	0	10	20
Michigan C	CWRU	10	0	10	20
Illinois	Indiana	10	10	10	30
UChicago C	Northwestern B	10	0	10	20
Northwestern A	UChicago B	10	0	10	20
rusty shackleford	abg academy	10	10	10	30
McGill Fartlets	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	10	0	0	10
Ottawa 67s	Carleton A	10	0	0	10
#OpenToBuzz	Queen's is monitoring the situation	10	0	0	10
Toronto G	Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	10	0	0	10
Toronto E	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	10	0	0	10
Toronto Operation PBSuccess	McGill B	10	0	0	10
Guelph perfomative male competition	Waterloo you are crooked	10	0	0	10
Free Win	The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	0	0	0	0
In Search of Lost Clues	Berkeley B	10	0	10	20
Berkeley A	Stanford A	10	0	0	10
Stanford B	Berkeley C	10	0	0	10
1. Wawa 2. Blank Street 151. Black Sheep at Kings Cross rail	Hail to the Sheaf	10	0	0	10
To buzz is to be perceived	Burnaburiash's Lapis Lazuli	10	10	10	30
Knorr Stock Clue	Chimp Brisket	10	0	0	10
Galactic Ombudsmen	Coughing Baby	10	0	10	20
Of Mice and Penn	Bristold	10	0	0	10
The Bit and the Penndulum	Paul Quifford, or, It Was a Dark and Stormy Tournament	10	0	0	10
question mark	Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	10	0	0	10
Washed Scrubs	Penn and the Art of Tossup-Bonus cycle Maintenance	10	0	0	10
Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	10	0	0	10
Planck Sinatra	UNC B	10	0	0	10
UNC A	VT B	10	0	0	10
VT A	Wise Duke	10	0	10	20