ICSE Class 8 Sanskrit

Practise unseen reading, short written answers and grammar ahead of the Class 9 transition.

What to practise

Find location and time clues, keep the subject and verb aligned, and use full sentences when answering a passage. Check your school’s expected grammar list and textbook edition.

Worksheets and practice papers

Class 8 · Reading, grammar and translation worksheet

Use evidence in unseen comprehension

Read once for the main event. On the second reading, mark time, place and cause. Answer in a full Sanskrit sentence when the question asks for one. Keep the case endings that show who did what and where.

Worked example

प्रातः छात्राः विद्यालयं गच्छन्ति।

To answer कदा छात्राः विद्यालयं गच्छन्ति?, keep the subject, verb and destination, then use the time word from the passage: छात्राः प्रातः विद्यालयं गच्छन्ति।

A library visit

अद्य छात्राः पुस्तकालयं गच्छन्ति। तत्र अध्यापिका कथां कथयति। छात्राः कथां शृण्वन्ति। अनन्तरं ते प्रश्नान् पृच्छन्ति।

Where do the students go?
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ते पुस्तकालयं गच्छन्ति।
What does the teacher do?
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अध्यापिका कथां कथयति।
What do they do after listening?
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ते प्रश्नान् पृच्छन्ति। अनन्तरम् signals what happens next.

Independent practice

Try each question before opening its answer.

Join विद्या + आलयः and explain the vowel change.
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विद्यालयः. आ + आ gives आ.
Translate छात्राः कथां शृण्वन्ति।
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The students listen to a story.
Change छात्रः प्रश्नं पृच्छति to several students asking several questions.
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छात्राः प्रश्नान् पृच्छन्ति। The subject, object and verb change.
Write one sentence beginning with अद्य about school.
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Example: अद्य विद्यालये उत्सवः अस्ति। There is a festival at school today.

Apply what you learned

Take a four-line passage from the assigned textbook. Write one कदा (when), one कुत्र (where) and one किम् (what) question. Exchange the questions with a classmate and check answers against the passage.

Quick revision

प्रातः छात्राः विद्यालयं गच्छन्ति। तत्र ते संस्कृतं पठन्ति।

When do they go to school? What do they study there? Answer in Sanskrit.

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ते प्रातः विद्यालयं गच्छन्ति। ते तत्र संस्कृतं पठन्ति। तत्र points back to the school.

देव + आलयः

Join the words and name the vowel change.

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देवालयः। Final अ and initial आ combine as आ.

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