NCERT Sanskrit Additional Book for Class 9 (New NCERT)
Textbook: Rishikulya
The NCERT Sanskrit Additional textbook (Rishikulya) for Class 9. All 10 chapters of the 2026-27 edition are listed below; full content, topic notes and downloadable PDFs are being added — check back soon.
Rishikulya is the NCERT additional Sanskrit book for Grade 9, listed here as a separate book beside the main Sanskrit textbook. Its title page describes it as learning material for Grade 9 Sanskrit (R2). The Contents page lists ten numbered lessons and three appendices, on special aphorisms (vishishta suktayah), popular maxims (laukika nyayah) and the use of maxims in context. This site lists only the ten numbered lessons as chapters.
The titles show a wide range of themes. The first lesson, "Aham Asmi Bharatasya Samvidhanam", speaks in the voice of the Constitution of India. Others treat the teacher and learner, the four aspects of the medical profession, the divine feminine power in all beings, five virtues for an ideal society, agriculture for people's welfare, dharma, conduct, character and the rule of the king, the dialogue of the Yaksha and Yudhishthira from the Mahabharata, the link between food and mind, and the maxim that one must not neglect self-study.
The additional book gives students more reading and practice than the main textbook, with a stress on values, citizenship and Indian knowledge traditions.
Families do not need to know Sanskrit to help: listening to the child chant, asking them to explain a verse and encouraging regular recitation make a difference. Titles are shown in Devanagari. The list follows the Contents of the 2026-27 reprint; overviews describe likely focus from titles, so please check the lessons.
Chapters
- Ch. 1 अहमस्मि भारतस्य संविधानम्
- Ch. 2 योऽधीतविद्यः सकलः स सर्वेषां गुरुर्भवेत्
- Ch. 3 वैद्यवृत्तिश्चतुर्विधा
- Ch. 4 सा देवी सर्वभूतेषु शक्तिरूपेण संस्थिता
- Ch. 5 पञ्च शीलानि आचरेम, आदर्शसमाजं रचयेम
- Ch. 6 समर्थेन कृषिः कार्या लोकानां हितकाम्यया
- Ch. 7 धर्मश्च व्यवहारश्च चरित्रं राजशासनम्
- Ch. 8 यक्ष-युधिष्ठिरसंवादः
- Ch. 9 यादृशम् अन्नं तादृशं मनः
- Ch. 10 स्वाध्यायान्मा प्रमदः
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The NCERT Sanskrit Additional textbook for Class 9 is published here in its new ncert edition, as part of the secondary stage of the NCERT curriculum, which prepares students for board-level assessment with a syllabus written to match the board exam pattern closely. NCERT — the National Council of Educational Research and Training — writes and publishes this textbook as the standard reference for Sanskrit Additional in CBSE and CBSE-affiliated schools across India, and it's what most school-level exams and homework for Class 9 are set against.
This page is organised chapter by chapter, matching the structure of the printed textbook exactly, so a chapter number here always lines up with the same chapter number in the physical or PDF book. Each chapter links through to its full text and, where available, a step-by-step NCERT Solution written against the exercises in this specific edition.
Because NCERT periodically revises its textbooks, both a "New NCERT" and an "Old NCERT" edition can be in use at the same time in different schools. NCERT Archive keeps the two fully separate — this page covers only the new ncert edition of Sanskrit Additional for Class 9. If you're looking for the old edition instead, it's linked from this page (where published) so you don't end up mixing chapters, exercise numbers or solutions between the two.
Reading the chapter first and attempting its exercises independently, before checking the matching NCERT Solution, tends to build a stronger and more exam-ready understanding of Sanskrit Additional than starting with the answers. Where NCERT has published an official PDF for this book, it's linked directly and marked "Official NCERT Source" so there's never any doubt about where it came from.