Exercise 1
- 1. If Rāma were to go to her house, then he might be pleased.
- 2. Let the hero strike the king's head with a weapon. We won't blame him.
- 3. There are clouds in the sky. The fire will be extinquished by the water in the clouds.
- 4. You ask - "O, Rāma, where do you go; why do you laugh; where do you stand?"
- 5. If the boys recites the sacred text in the book, then his father should give him fruit.
- 6. When the king of a country does not protect the people in the country, then the people should not praise him, they should even blame him.
- 7. Wind does not pacify fire. It is only pacified by water. Therefore where there is fire, the people should carry water in vessels.
- 8. The king made a sacrifice in his village; therefore he got a son.
- 9. The boy only saw the moon when he climbed the tree.
- 10. If people were to see the sun in the clouds, the they might think "the sun dwells in the clouds".
- 11. The boy gave fruits to his father with both hands. He said "Father wash all these fruits in water, and eat them father!"
- 12. The father said "hey son, only you should wash those fruits in water, then I will eat them. You and I could eat those fruits together.
- 13. The son washed those fruits in the water of the lake in the forest, and gave the to his father. Those two were pleased by the fruits.
- 14. The king knows there is power only in the sacred text. He think "power is only in the sacred text". He wonders "is there power in the sacred text?"
- 15. The Pandit says to the king: "O Sire, there is indeed power in the sacred text"
Exercise 2
rewrite the sanskrit with sandhis.
- १. यदा रामस्तस्या गृहं गच्छेत् , तदा स तुष्येत् ।
- २. वीरो नृपस्य शीर्षं शस्त्रेण तुदतु । वयं तं न निन्देम् ॥
- ३. मेघा अाकाशे भ्राम्यन्ति । मेघानां जलैः वने अनलश्शाम्येत, ॥
- ४. त्वं पृच्छसि - हे राम, क्व गच्छसि, कुतो हससि । कुत्र तिष्ठति - इति ॥
- ५. यदि बालः पुस्यके शास्त्रं पठेत् तर्हि यस्य जनकस्तस्मै फलं यच्छेत् ॥
- ६. यदा तस्मिन् देशे नृपो जनान् न रक्षेत्, तदा जना नृपं न शंसेयु । ते तं निन्देयुः एव ॥
- ७. अनलो ऽनिलेन न शाम्यति । स जलेन एव शाम्येत् । ततो यत्र जनाः पात्रैः जलं नयन्तु ॥
- ८. स नृपस्तस्मिन् ग्रामे अयजत् । ततस्स युत्रं सविन्दत् ॥
- ९. स बालो यदा वृक्षं अरोहत् , तदा एव स चन्द्रं अपश्यत् ॥
- १०. यदि जना मेघेषु सूर्यं पश्येयुः , तर्हि ते चिन्तयेयुः - सूर्यो मेघेषु वसति - इति ॥
- ११. जनकाय बालः कराभ्यां फलानि अयच्छत् । सो ऽवदत् - हे तात, सर्वाणि फलानि जलेन क्षालय । ततच्च तानि भक्षय इति ॥
- १२. जनको ऽवदत् - हे पुत्र, त्वं एव तानि फलानि जलेन क्षालयेः, ततो ऽहं तानि भक्षयेयं । त्वं अपि मया सह तानि फलानि भक्षयेः - इति
- १३. पुत्रो वने हदस्य जलेन तानि फलानि अक्षालयत् , जलकाय च अयच्छत् । तौ फलौः अतुष्यताम् ॥
- १४. नृपश्शस्त्रस्य एव बलं बोधति । स चिन्तयति - शस्त्रे एव बलं भवति - इति । स चिन्तयति - अपि शास्त्रे बलं भवति - इति
- १५. पण्डितो नृपाय कथयति - हे नृप शास्त्रे अपि बलं भवति - इति ॥
Saṃskṛtasubodhinī: A Sanskrit Primer
by Madhav Desphande
Last updated: 17:55 05/11/2008