Maharashtra HSC Ardhamagadhi case studies
Maharashtra HSC Ardhamagadhi · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Ardhamagadhi is the Prakrit language in which the Jain canon was composed, and it is taught in Maharashtra as a classical-language subject at Higher Secondary level. The HSC paper tests whether a candidate can read the language, not merely describe it: you are asked to explain prescribed prose and verse passages, identify rasa and figures of speech, parse nominal and verbal forms, apply sandhi rules, and translate in both directions between Ardhamagadhi and Marathi. The Maharashtra HSC Ardhamagadhi case studies are 5 cases and about 3,310 words.
1The 3/4 Script and the Missing Conclusion
Thirty-eight Std XII students sit a 4-mark question on a prescribed prose dialogue. In the passage a king asks a monk whether a man who orders a cruel punishment, but afterwards pays for a temple and feeds monks, can escape the fruit of that act.
688 words, about 3 min2Rasa by Authorship: The Deer Verse
Your internal test carries a four-line prescribed Prakrit verse. A young deer drinks at a forest pool and does not see the arrow already loosed; the second couplet observes that the body is a bubble that bursts before the summer cloud has passed.
671 words, about 3 min3The -ae That Does Five Jobs
An 8-mark grammar item is built on one sentence: 'Nandae putto samanam vandai.' Part (a) asks for the case and number of Nandae, putto and samanam; part (b) for the stem, gender and paradigm of Nandae and putto; part (c) for splitting and naming the sandhi in the next line, where tassa is followed by aham. Forty-five students attempt it.
653 words, about 3 min4Marathi Honorifics in an Ardhamagadhi Frame
A 5-mark Marathi-to-Ardhamagadhi translation item reads: the Lord Mahavira gave the gift of fearlessness to all living beings, and said that non-violence is the greatest gift. The scheme allots 2 marks for case endings, 1 for verb forms, 1 for the reported-speech link and compound, 1 for fluency.
625 words, about 3 min5Stopped or Destroyed? Marking Samvara and Nirjara
A 6-mark essay asks students to distinguish asrava, samvara and nirjara and to show how the prescribed prose passage ties them to right conduct. The scheme gives 2 marks per term, and each definition must end with what it asks of the practitioner to earn its second mark.
673 words, about 3 min