ICSE Class 9 Sanskrit

Prepare for your school’s Class 9 assessments using the Sanskrit option and text you are registered for.

What to practise

Build a weekly routine of grammar retrieval, unseen translation and corrections. Use the option guide below to decide how to divide time between the prescribed text and translation.

Worksheets and practice papers

Choose your registered Sanskrit option

Ask your school which option it registered and which examination-year syllabus to follow.

For the 2026–27 Class 9 cohort, use the documents for the 2028 ICSE examination and check your school’s assigned scope.

Use noun cases to build a translation

Locate the finite verb and identify the subject. Then work out each noun’s role from its ending. A recipient is often dative, a point of departure can be ablative, and a place where something happens is often locative. Keep a record of the cases missed in your last test.

Worked example

अध्यापकः छात्रेभ्यः पुस्तकानि ददाति।

ददाति means “gives”. अध्यापकः is the singular subject. पुस्तकानि is the plural object. छात्रेभ्यः is dative plural here because the pupils receive the books. Translation: “The teacher gives books to the pupils.”

A day in a village

ग्रामे एकः कृषकः वसति। सः प्रातः क्षेत्रं गच्छति। सायं सः क्षेत्रात् गृहं प्रत्यागच्छति।

Where does the farmer live?
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सः ग्रामे वसति। ग्रामे is locative singular.
When does he go to the field?
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सः प्रातः क्षेत्रं गच्छति।
What shows where he returns from?
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क्षेत्रात् is ablative singular. He returns home from the field.

Independent practice

Try each question before opening its answer.

Translate गुरुः शिष्याय फलं ददाति। Name the recipient’s case.
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The teacher gives a fruit to the pupil. शिष्याय is dative singular.
Write “The girl reads a book in the garden” in Sanskrit.
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बालिका उद्याने पुस्तकं पठति।
Join महा + उत्सवः.
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महोत्सवः। आ + उ gives ओ.
Explain how ग्रामे differs from ग्रामात्.
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ग्रामे means “in the village”. ग्रामात् means “from the village”.

Apply what you learned

If you study Group I, turn the passage into three full Sanskrit answers and practise one paragraph from your prescribed text. If you study Group II, translate the passage into English, cover it, then write the meaning back in Sanskrit. Compare endings before checking vocabulary.

Quick revision

गुरुः शिष्याय ग्रन्थं ददाति।

Identify giver, recipient and thing given, then translate the sentence.

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गुरुः is the giver, शिष्याय is the dative recipient and ग्रन्थम् is the accusative object. The teacher gives a book to the pupil.

बालकः ग्रामात् आगच्छति।

Which word shows the point of departure?

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ग्रामात् is ablative singular. The boy comes from the village.

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