CBSE Class 10 Sanskrit Previous-Year Papers

Choose your subject code for official CBSE board papers and six selected worked answers from the 2025 main exam.

Sanskrit (122)

Use Set 4, question-paper code 52. Each selected subpart is worth 1 mark. Open the linked 2025 paper for the exact wording.

Q4(i) · Translation

Translate the sentence about all of us studying Sanskrit.

वयं सर्वे संस्कृतं पठामः।

वयम् means “we” and takes the first-person plural पठामः. सर्वे adds “all”, and संस्कृतम् is the object.

Q5(i) · Visarga sandhi

Join the underlined forms योजकः and तत्र.

योजकस्तत्र

The visarga changes to स् before त्. Then स् joins the following त् to give स्त.

Q6(iv) · Samasa

Form a compound meaning weak in body from the underlined pair.

शरीरदुर्बलः (B)

शरीरेण gives the respect in which the person is weak. Combine the stem शरीर with दुर्बलः to form a तृतीया तत्पुरुष compound.

Use Set 4, question-paper code 65. Each selected subpart is worth 1 mark. Open the linked 2025 paper for the exact wording.

Q5(iv) · Visarga sandhi

Join the forms for “father’s” and “by the advice”.

पितुरुपदेशेन

The visarga after उ in पितुः becomes र् before the initial उ of उपदेशेन. Write the two parts together.

Q6(iii) · Samasa

Combine the crane and the crow into a single compound.

बककाकौ (C)

The two nouns are joined by “and”, so use a द्वन्द्व compound. Its ending औ marks the two birds.

Q7(ii) · Pratyaya

Use मतुप् with बुद्धि to describe the feminine subject सा.

बुद्धिमती (D)

मतुप् expresses possession of बुद्धि. Choose the feminine nominative singular बुद्धिमती to agree with सा.