Name: ________________

Write one word in each gap. The first one is done for you.

At Advaita Acharya's House 1

	At the House of Advaita Acharya.
	
	All the food was divided into three (1) parts . One part was placed on a metal
	plate for offering to Lord Krishna. The other (2)______ parts were placed on
	banana leaves. The leaves were taken from a banana (3)______ that held not less
	than thirty- two bunches of (4)______. The two plates were filled very nicely
	with so many (5)______ of food.
	
	The cooked rice was a stack of very fine grains nicely (6)______, and in the
	middle was ghee from the milk of (7)______. All around the stack of rice were
	pots made of the skins of banana trees, and in these (8)______ were different
	kinds (9)______ vegetables and mung dhal.

	Some of the vegetables  which (10)______ cooked were patolas, squash,
	manakachu and a salad made (11)______ pieces of ginger and different types of
	spinach.
	
	There was shukhta, (12)______ is bitter melon mixed with all kinds of vegetables.
	(13)______ were five different kinds of shukhtas. Amongst the various vegetables
	were newly grown leaves of nimba trees fried with eggplant. (14)______ fruit known
	as patola was fried with phulabadi, a (15)______ of dhal which is first mashed and
	then dried in the (16)______.

	Use each of these words to fill in the blanks.

	cows	bananas	sun	kinds	pots
	tree	The	were	There	two
	which	cooked	with	kind	of

Name: ________________

Write one word in each gap. The first one is done for you.

At Advaita Acharya's House 1 (Teacher's copy)

	At the House of Advaita Acharya.
	
	All the food was divided into three (1) parts . One part was placed on a metal
	plate for offering to Lord Krishna. The other (2) two  parts were placed on
	banana leaves. The leaves were taken from a banana (3) tree  that held not less
	than thirty- two bunches of (4) bananas . The two plates were filled very nicely
	with so many (5) kinds  of food.
	
	The cooked rice was a stack of very fine grains nicely (6) cooked , and in the
	middle was ghee from the milk of (7) cows . All around the stack of rice were
	pots made of the skins of banana trees, and in these (8) pots  were different
	kinds (9) of  vegetables and mung dhal.

	Some of the vegetables  which (10) were  cooked were patolas, squash,
	manakachu and a salad made (11) with  pieces of ginger and different types of
	spinach.
	
	There was shukhta, (12) which  is bitter melon mixed with all kinds of vegetables.
	(13) There  were five different kinds of shukhtas. Amongst the various vegetables
	were newly grown leaves of nimba trees fried with eggplant. (14) The  fruit known
	as patola was fried with phulabadi, a (15) kind  of dhal which is first mashed and
	then dried in the (16) sun .