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Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
‘Kudācanaṁ’, ‘tuṇhī’ and ‘namo’ are all nipāta words in Pali, so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
None of the three given is a compound formed otherwise than on the cases, so the answer is ‘None of these’.
Correct answer: (B) 20
The number of Hindi's own (tadbhava) prefixes is usually counted as twenty. The Sanskrit prefixes are counted separately.
Correct answer: (D) More than one of the above
In ‘su + āgata = svāgata’ and ‘bahu + ābādho = bahvābādho’ the optional ‘v’ appears, so the answer is ‘more than one’.
Correct answer: (B) Karmadharaya compound
‘Nīluppalaṁ’ means the blue lotus—an adjective with its noun—so it is a kammadhāraya compound.
Correct answer: (B) Three
Pali grammar has three kinds of sandhi—vowel, consonant and niggahita.
Correct answer: (A) Cattāro + ime
‘Cattārome’ resolves as ‘cattāro + ime’.
Correct answer: (C) Seven
Pali has seven cases.
Correct answer: (C) Accusative
‘Antarā’ takes the accusative, so ‘rājagahaṁ’ and ‘nālandaṁ’ stand in the second case.
Correct answer: (C) Apaṭhiṃsu
The past tense, third person plural of the root ‘paṭh’ is ‘apaṭhiṁsu’.
Correct answer: (C) Six
Pali is taken to have six kinds of compound.
Correct answer: (C) One by whom the senses have been conquered — Bahuvrihi
‘Jitendriyo’ resolves as ‘jitāni indriyāni yena so’; the sense resting outside the words, it is a bahubbīhi compound.
Correct answer: (B) So buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchati.
‘So’ is the third person and ‘gacchati’ its singular present, so the correct rendering is ‘so buddhaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchati’.
Correct answer: (C) Buddho ettha dhammacakkaṃ pavattesi.
The past takes the form ‘pavattesi’, so the correct rendering is ‘buddho ettha dhammacakkaṁ pavattesi’.
Correct answer: (E) None of the above
Each of the three renderings errs in tense or in case, so the answer is ‘None of these’.
Correct answer: (A) Imasmiṃ loke manusso anudinaṃ dukkhaṃ anubhavati.
‘Imasmiṁ loke manusso anudinaṁ dukkhaṁ anubhavati’ is right in both number and tense, so that is the correct rendering.
Correct answer: (B) I will go to the village with the cows.
‘Gamissāmi’ is the future, so the sense is—I shall go to the village with the cows.
Correct answer: (C) They hear the words of the children.
‘Te’ is plural and ‘suṇanti’ a plural verb, so the sense is—they hear the children's words.
Correct answer: (B) A path was established by the Buddha for the cessation of suffering.
The sentence is passive (‘bhagavatā buddhena … patiṭṭhāpitaṁ’), so the rendering too must be passive—a path was established by the Lord Buddha for the cessation of suffering.
Correct answer: (A) The Bodhisattva left home and came on foot to Rajgir.
‘Agamāsi’ is the past, so the sense is—the Bodhisattva left home and went on foot to Rajagriha.