KSEAB SSLC FL Sanskrit case studies

KSEAB SSLC FL Sanskrit · Put your knowledge to work in context.

The KSEAB SSLC First Language Sanskrit paper is the Class 10 board examination in Sanskrit taken by Karnataka students who study Sanskrit as their first language rather than as a third language. It is set and conducted by the Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB). The KSEAB SSLC FL Sanskrit case studies are 5 cases and about 3,547 words.

Plot retold, marks lost: a 6-mark Gadya answer that explains nothing

Meghana, a Class 10 student, takes a mock SSLC Sanskrit paper whose Gadya section carries 6 marks: a two-mark question asking for kathāyāḥ sāraḥ (the central message of the prescribed prose lesson), a three-mark question on the character of the minister in that lesson, and a one-mark word-meaning item. For the message question she writes nine sentences of plot - the king goes to the forest, the sage speaks, the minister arrives, the king repents - and never writes a sentence that states a lesson.

765 words, about 4 min 2

Eleven syllables that were never there: scansion, alaṅkāra and message in a Padya answer

Ravi's five-mark Padya answer on the verse 'naro yatnaṃ vinā kiñcit na prāpnoti kadācana / yatnaṃ kurvantu vidvāṃso dhanaṃ yaśaś ca vindati' returns 1/5. His scansion line reads 'na-ro-yat-na-ṃ-vi-nā-ki-ñ-ci-t = 11', and from eleven syllables he concludes indravajrā; he counted vidvāṃso as four syllables.

666 words, about 3 min 3

Two stems for one root: diagnosing a dhatu-rupa table and a sandhi sheet

A ten-mark grammar test has two halves: the present-tense rūpa table of the root kṛ (nine forms, 5 marks) and five sandhi items (5 marks). Arjun's table reads: karomi, karoṣi, karati / karvaḥ, karuthaḥ, kurutaḥ / kurmaḥ, karutha, karavanti.

700 words, about 4 min 4

78 words for a 150-word anuchheda: marking content, structure and format in Rachana

Divya submits a ten-mark Rachana test: an anuchheda of 150 words on paryāvaraṇarakṣaṇam (5 marks) and a patra to a friend (5 marks). Her anuchheda is 78 words in seven sentences, begins 'asmin anuchhede ahaṃ paryāvaraṇasya viṣayam likhāmi', gives no example of any kind, repeats vṛkṣāḥ five times, and stops without a closing appeal.

659 words, about 3 min 5

'Heavy rock' or 'the teacher'? False friends and a translation award in an unseen passage

An eight-question unseen passage test (four one-mark objective items and two two-mark short answers; 8 marks) was given on this passage: purā mahat kānanaṃ āsīt. tasya madhye guruḥ śilākūṭaḥ āsīt.

757 words, about 4 min