Sanatan Gyan ज्ञान
Unit: How the tradition carries itself
Topics
- Shruti, smriti, itihasa, purana — the shelves and their kinds
- Commentary: how a text is kept alive by explainers
- One passage met in two tellings
- Why traditions differ and how to say so honestly
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Sort named texts onto the right shelves
- Explain what a commentary is and does
- Compare two tellings of one passage fairly
- State a difference between traditions without ranking
Activities · Assessment
Shelf sorting · Two-tellings study · Difference practice
Assessed by: Sorting test + comparison essay
Sources
PSNamed texts across the four shelves; a commented passage in translation
ASTextual-tradition scholarship
GONCF Middle-stage guidance
SSEBThe shelves frame; the say-differences-honestly rule
Further units this grade
The reciters: how sound preserved text · Libraries and losses
Sanskrit & Bharatiya Bhasha भाषा
Unit: Sandhi and first translation
Topics
- Common sandhi joins, heard then seen
- Splitting joined words in known verses
- Translating four studied lines with a glossary
- Dictionary habits begun
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Split common sandhi in studied material
- Translate the four lines with the glossary
- Use a beginner dictionary correctly
Activities · Assessment
Sandhi drills · Guided translation · Dictionary races
Assessed by: Translation exercise
Sources
PSThe studied verses, sources named
ASSanskrit pedagogy
GOCBSE Sanskrit alignment
SSEBGlossary-supported translation method
Further units this grade
The verse's metre, clapped · Speaking practice continued
Darshana & Viveka दर्शन
Unit: The six darshanas, introduced
Topics
- Six schools named with their one-line questions
- Same world, different starting points — how that works
- Nyaya's toolkit recalled and sharpened
- Buddhist and Jain voices noted as neighbours in the debate
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Name the six darshanas with a question each asks
- Explain how schools differ from starting points
- Run a structured debate using the class toolkit
- Name the neighbouring voices accurately
Activities · Assessment
Schools gallery · Starting-point games · Formal debate
Assessed by: Gallery test + debate
Sources
PSThe darshana tradition, schools named; no original texts yet
ASIntroductions to Indian philosophy
GOKTPI philosophical-systems precedent
SSEBThe one-line-question doorway
Further units this grade
Ahimsa across the schools · What is the self? — the question posed
Dharma & Ethics धर्म
Unit: Order, wealth and duty
Topics
- Arthashastra met through stories: order as a duty
- Wealth honoured and bounded in the tradition
- Taxes, roads and wells: the old state's work
- A case: when order and kindness pull apart
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Retell one Arthashastra-tradition story with its point
- Explain wealth-with-bounds in tradition terms
- List what the old state built and why
- Argue one order-versus-kindness case both ways
Activities · Assessment
Story analysis · Case debate · Old-state mapping
Assessed by: Essay + debate
Sources
PSArthashastra named and dated; story selections
ASPolitical-thought scholarship, teacher-side
GONCF civics alignment
SSEBThe order-and-kindness case method
Further units this grade
The just price in the bazaar · Dana: giving as structure
Sanskriti & Civilisation संस्कृति
Unit: A timeline with evidence
Topics
- The civilisation's big periods, pegged with evidence
- One city studied across time
- Continuity and change told apart
- What we do not know, said plainly
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Build a pegged timeline with evidence cards
- Present one city's story across periods
- Give one continuity and one change with evidence
- State one open question honestly
Activities · Assessment
Timeline build · City study · Open-questions wall
Assessed by: Timeline + city presentation
Sources
PSSites and inscriptions named as evidence
ASHistorical scholarship
GONCF social-science alignment
SSEBThe evidence-pegged timeline method
Further units this grade
Traders and the sea · The manuscript's journey
Bharatiya Knowledge Systems IKS
Unit: Ayurveda as a knowledge tradition
Topics
- Charaka and Sushruta named, dated, and read about
- What the tradition systematised: observation, regimen, surgery described
- Historical claims vs medical claims — the line drawn hard
- How a tradition is studied without being prescribed
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Place Charaka and Sushruta with dates and works
- Describe two things the tradition systematised
- Distinguish a historical claim from a medical one
- Write about the tradition without prescribing
Activities · Assessment
Source-about study · Claim-line exercises
Assessed by: Essay with the claim-line applied; no medical claims
Sources
PSCharaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita, named and dated (studied about)
ASHistory-of-medicine scholarship
GOKTPI Ayurveda precedent
SSEBThe hard claim-line rule
Further units this grade
Metals and makers · The granary and the monsoon
Yoga & Swasthya स्वास्थ्य
Unit: The eight limbs, named
Topics
- Patanjali's eight limbs as a map, not a sermon
- Practice continued: sequence, breath, stillness
- Yama and niyama discussed as habits already met
- The certificate-year practical prepared
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Name the eight limbs and place practice on the map
- Demonstrate their matured sequence and breathwork
- Connect two yamas to habits they already keep
- Complete the stage practical
Activities · Assessment
Map study · Practice · Stage practical
Assessed by: Stage practical + map test; never medical claims
Sources
PSPatanjali's Yoga Sutra, named — the limbs as its frame
ASYoga-studies scholarship
GOCBSE PE & Well-being; Yoga subject precedent
SSEBMap-not-sermon treatment
Further units this grade
Rest and the examined week
Kala & Kaushal कला
Unit: Kaushal: plan and run a small project
Topics
- A real small project: plan, budget, make, account
- The discipline continued from Grade 6 shown publicly
- Digital literacy in the project's service
- Honest accounting of what was spent and made
Learning outcomes — the student will
- Plan and complete the project to its budget
- Perform/present their continuing discipline
- Use digital tools for the project's real needs
- Present transparent accounts
Activities · Assessment
Project term · Exhibition · Accounts presentation
Assessed by: Project + accounts + performance
Sources
PSThe living craft/trade practices involved
ASProject-based-learning scholarship
GONCF vocational guidance
SSEBThe plan-make-account frame
Further units this grade
The certificate-year showcase