Randomized Basic 3

Question 1

ayam/idam- (pron)

Answer 1

‘he/she/it; this; that’

Question 2

araṇya- (n.)

Answer 2

‘forest, wilderness’

Question 3

artha- (m.)

Answer 3

‘aim, purpose;

cause, motive;

advantage, use;

thing, wealth’

Question 4

ātman-

Answer 4

(m.) ‘soul, self’;

(refl pron) ‘oneself’

Question 5

ārta- (adj)

Answer 5

‘afflicted, pained’

Question 6

āsana- (n.)

Answer 6

‘sitting’: ‘position, seat, dwelling’

Question 7

īdṛśa- (adj)

Answer 7

‘such, of such a kind’

Question 8

upama- (adj)

Answer 8

‘highest, best; excelling; (ifc) ‘equal/similar to, resembling (–> upamā- (f.) ‘(standard of) comparison’

Question 9

eṣaḥ/etad- (pron)

Answer 9

‘he/she/it; this, that’

Question 10

ka- (pron)

Answer 10

‘who? what? which?’

(declined like saḥ/tad

except for NomAcc Sg Ntr kim)

Question 11

kathā- (f.)

Answer 11

‘story’

Question 12

kānana- (n.)

Answer 12

‘forest’

Question 13

kim

Answer 13

(1) (pron) NomAcc Sg Ntr ‘what? why?’
(2) (ind) indicates yes/no question

Question 14

kumāra- (m.)

Answer 14

‘young man; prince’

Question 15

ā-√gam (irreg āgacchati)

Answer 15

‘come’

Question 16

jīvita- (n.)

Answer 16

‘life’

Question 17

-jña- (adj, ifc)

Answer 17

‘knowing’

Question 18

jyeṣṭha- (adj)

Answer 18

‘best; excellent’

Question 19

tapas- (n.)

Answer 19

‘suffering; religious austerities, penance’

Question 20

ā-√dā (III ādadāti)

Answer 20

‘take, receive’,

Abs ādāya lit. ‘having taken’: ‘with’

Question 21

nara- (m.)

Answer 21

‘man’

Question 22

nṛpa- (m.)

Answer 22

‘king’

Question 23

√pat (I patati)

Answer 23

‘fall; fly’

Question 24

parvata- (m.)

Answer 24

‘mountain’

Question 25

pāda-pa- (m.)

Answer 25

‘foot-drinker, one that drinks with its roots’:

‘tree’

Question 26

puṃ-gava- (m.)

Answer 26

‘bull among men’: ‘very strong person’

Question 27

puṇya- (adj)

Answer 27

‘meritorious, virtuous, good’

Question 28

prajā- (f.)

Answer 28

‘offspring; subject’

Question 29

bhavat- (m.)

Answer 29

‘you, Sir’ (polite form of address),

used with 3rd-person verb

Question 30

bhāryā- (f.)

Answer 30

‘wife’

Question 31

√bhī (III bibheti)

Answer 31

‘fear, be afraid of’ (+ Abl)

Question 32

yataḥ (ind)

Answer 32

‘because’

Question 33

rakṣas, rākṣasa- (m., fem rākṣasī-)

Answer 33

‘rākṣasa, demon’

Question 34

ratha- (m.)

Answer 34

‘chariot’

Question 35

rājya- (n.)

Answer 35

‘kingdom; royal power’

Question 36

locana- (n.)

Answer 36

‘eye’

Question 37

vadana- (n.)

Answer 37

‘speaking; mouth, face’

Question 38

vadha- (m.)

Answer 38

‘killing, murder’

Question 39

vana- (n.)

Answer 39

‘forest’

Question 40

vānara- (m.)

Answer 40

‘forest’

Question 41

vipula- (adj)

Answer 41

‘large, extensive’

Question 42

vividha- (adj)

Answer 42

‘various, different’

Question 43

vīrya-vat- (adj)

Answer 43

‘heroic, valorous’

Question 44

śakra-

Answer 44

(adj) ‘powerful, mighty’,
(m. ) Indra

Question 45

śara- (m.)

Answer 45

‘arrow’

Question 46

śarīra- (n.)

Answer 46

‘body’

Question 47

sadṛśa- (adj)

Answer 47

‘such, of such a kind’

Question 48

√snā (II snāti)

Answer 48

‘bathe’

Question 49

svana- (m.)

Answer 49

‘sound, noise’

Question 50

ha (ind)

Answer 50

adds emphasis