NCERT Class 7 Sanskrit book PDF (2026-27): the current Class 7 Sanskrit textbook is Deepakam (दीपकम्), which replaced Ruchira Bhag 2 under NCF-SE 2023. It has 12 lessons, a section on the alphabet and two grammar appendices. Every PDF below is NCERT’s Reprint 2026-27 file.
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Class 7 Sanskrit Deepakam Chapter-wise PDF
Each lesson teaches one grammar point in its exercises, listed under the lesson below. The book moves through the vibhaktis one by one (तृतीया in lesson 2, चतुर्थी in 3, षष्ठी in 6, पञ्चमी in 9, सप्तमी in 11) and covers three tenses: लट्, लृट् and लङ्.
| Lesson | Title and what it covers | |
|---|---|---|
| पाठ 1 | वन्दे भारतमातरम् (Salutations to Mother India) A mother explains Vande Mataram to her children: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay wrote it in his novel Anandamath (1882), in Sanskrit and Bangla. Grammar: Vibhaktis and present tense (लट् लकार) | |
| पाठ 2 | नित्यं पिबामः सुभाषितरसम् (Let us drink the nectar of subhashitas every day) Students ask their teacher about the sayings written on the school walls, followed by subhashitas on the six faults (sleep, drowsiness, fear, anger, laziness, procrastination). Grammar: Instrumental case (तृतीया विभक्ति) | |
| पाठ 3 | मित्राय नमः (Salutations to the Sun) A teacher and students talk about Surya Namaskar and its twelve mantras, from ॐ मित्राय नमः onwards. Grammar: Dative case (चतुर्थी) with नमः and verbs of giving | |
| पाठ 4 | न लभ्यते चेत् आम्लं द्राक्षाफलम् (If you cannot get them, the grapes are sour) The fox and the grapes, told in verse: a hungry fox jumps again and again, fails, and calls the grapes sour. Grammar: Atmanepada verbs in the present tense (लभते, वन्दते) | |
| पाठ 5 | सेवा हि परमो धर्मः (Service is the highest duty) Nagarjuna, the chemist and physician, chooses his assistant: the youth who left his task to nurse a sick traveller back to health. Grammar: क्तवतु participles and the past tense with स्म | |
| पाठ 6 | क्रीडाम वयं श्लोकान्ताक्षरीम् (Let us play shloka antakshari) Classmates play antakshari with shlokas on learning and good conduct. Grammar: Genitive case (षष्ठी) and the forms of विद्या | |
| पाठ 7 | ईशावास्यम् इदं सर्वम् (God pervades all this) A classroom play on Prahlada, who holds that Hari is everywhere, even in a pillar, against his father Hiranyakashipu; Narasimha appears. Grammar: Future tense (लृट् लकार) | |
| पाठ 8 | हितं मनोहारि च दुर्लभं वचः (Words that are both helpful and pleasing are rare) Suktis gathered from the Atharvaveda, Kalidasa’s Kumarasambhavam and the Panchatantra. Grammar: When anusvara is written as म् before a vowel | |
| पाठ 9 | अन्नाद् भवन्ति भूतानि (Living beings come from food) The cycle of food, rain and farming, drawing on the Taittiriya Upanishad and the Bhagavad Gita. Grammar: Ablative case (पञ्चमी) | |
| पाठ 10 | दशमः कः ? (Who is the tenth?) Ten boys cross a river and each counts the others but not himself, until a traveller tells their leader: दशमः त्वम् असि. Grammar: Cardinal and ordinal numbers (प्रथमः to दशमः) | |
| पाठ 11 | द्वीपेषु रम्यः द्वीपोऽण्डमानः (The Andaman, loveliest of islands) A map lesson on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Sri Vijaya Puram (Port Blair) and the Cellular Jail where freedom fighters such as Veer Savarkar were held. Grammar: Locative case (सप्तमी) and adjective–noun agreement | |
| पाठ 12 | वीराङ्गना पन्नाधाया (Panna Dhai, the brave woman) Panna Dhai of Mewar puts her own son Chandan in the prince’s bed so that Banvir kills him instead of young Udai Singh. Grammar: Past tense (लङ् लकार) and क्तवतु |
Alphabet Section and Grammar Appendices
| Section | |
|---|---|
| वर्णमाला-परिचयः Additional study: the alphabet, vowels and consonants, and the length (mātrā) of hrasva, dīrgha and pluta sounds, taught through a talk between Shraddha and her teacher. | |
| परिशिष्टम् १: शब्दरूपाणि Appendix 1: noun and pronoun forms (शम्भु, गुरु, किम्, तद्, एतद्, अस्मद्, युष्मद्) in all vibhaktis. | |
| परिशिष्टम् २: धातुरूपाणि Appendix 2: verb forms in लट् and लृट्, and the basic vowel sandhis (दीर्घ, गुण). |
Deepakam or Ruchira: Which Class 7 Sanskrit Book?
Deepakam first came out in 2025 and replaced Ruchira Bhag 2, the earlier Class 7 book that began with सुभाषितानि. Chapter-wise Hindi translations of Ruchira are still on this site, starting from Class 7 Sanskrit Chapter 1 (Ruchira). Books for every Class 7 subject are on the NCERT Class 7 books page, and Sanskrit books for other classes are on the NCERT Sanskrit books page.