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Level 6 · Lesson 15 श्रवणकथा — काशीयात्रा
Listening story II: a journey to Kāśī
एकस्य परिवारस्य काशीयात्रायाः वृत्तान्तः, प्रश्नाः च।
A family's trip to Vārāṇasī — travel narration with comprehension questions.
श्रवणम् · Listen
कथा — अस्माकं काशीयात्रा
Last month our whole family went to the city of Kāśī.
The train journey from Bengaluru took two days.
On the way, fields, rivers, and mountains kept appearing through the window.
Reaching Kāśī, on the very first day we went to the ghats of the Gaṅgā.
Rising at four, we watched the sunrise from a boat — ah, an unforgettable sight!
On the ghat were pilgrims from many lands — some Japanese, some German.
One foreign lady even greeted us in Sanskrit — ‘namo namaḥ’! We were amazed.
Then my father said, ‘See — the whole earth really is one family.’
विवरणम् · Explanation
यात्रावर्णने एतानि उपयुज्यन्ते — गन्तव्यं (काशीं गतवन्तः), साधनं (धूमशकटेन), अवधिः (द्विदिनात्मिका), दृश्यानि (दृश्यन्ते स्म), अनुभवः (विस्मिताः अभवाम)। ‘प्राप्य’ ‘उत्थाय’ इति क्त्वा-ल्यप्-रूपैः कथा प्रवहति।
A travel narration needs five ingredients: destination (accusative with गम्), means (instrumental — धूमशकटेन ‘by train’), duration, sights (note दृश्यन्ते स्म, ‘kept being seen’), and your reaction. The absolutives प्राप्य ‘having reached’ and उत्थाय ‘having risen’ chain events smoothly — they are the glue of fluent storytelling.
सुभाषितम् · Verse of the day
अयं निजः परो वेति गणना लघुचेतसाम्। उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम्॥
अर्थः — ‘अयं निजः, अयं परः’ इति गणना लघुचित्तानां भवति; उदारचरितानां तु वसुधा एव कुटुम्बकम्।
‘This one is mine, that one a stranger’ — so count the small-minded; for the noble-hearted, the whole earth is one family. The father's quotation on the ghat, given here in full.
शब्दाः · Vocabulary
| शब्दः | Meaning | टिप्पणी · Note |
|---|---|---|
| यात्रा | journey | |
| धूमशकटः | train | literally: smoke-cart |
| वातायनम् | window | |
| घट्टः | ghat, riverside steps | |
| नौका | boat | |
| सूर्योदयः | sunrise | |
| यात्रिकः | traveller, pilgrim | |
| विस्मितः | amazed |
अभ्यासः · Practice
वाक्यव्यवहारः · Use it
स्वस्य काञ्चित् स्मरणीयां यात्रां वर्णयतु — अष्टवाक्यैः। पञ्च अङ्गानि अवश्यं भवन्तु — गन्तव्यं, साधनम्, अवधिः, एकं दृश्यम्, एकः अनुभवः। ‘प्राप्य’ ‘दृष्ट्वा’ इति रूपे न्यूनातिन्यूनं द्विवारं प्रयुङ्क्ताम्।
Describe a memorable trip of your own in eight sentences, covering all five ingredients — destination, means, duration, one sight, one feeling — and use absolutives like प्राप्य and दृष्ट्वा at least twice. Record yourself and listen back: this is your own listening passage now.