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Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adv

Isabel, Lady Burton

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I am about to perform spells, incantations and magical rites on the banks of the river Godavari, in a large smashana, a cemetery where bodies are burned. By this means the Eight Powers of Nature will all become mine. This thing I ask of you as alms, that you and the young prince Dharma Dhwaj will pass one night with me, doing my bidding. By you remaining near me my incantations will be successful."

The valiant Vikram nearly started from his seat at the word cemetery, but, like a ruler of men, he restrained his face from expressing his feelings, and he presently replied, "Good, we will come, tell us on what day!"

"You are to come to me," said the devotee, "armed, but without followers, on the Monday evening the 14th of the dark half of the month Bhadra.[38]" The Raja said: "Do you go your ways, we will certainly come." In this manner, having received a promise from the king, and having taken leave, the devotee returned to his house: thence he repaire. . . Read More

Community Reviews

My memories fly back to my early childhood. Late 1950’s a preschooler. My maternal grandmother used to read stories from the Tamil edition of Chandamama which was called Ambulimama. And my favourite story was of Vikramaditya. The accompanying picture was of a king holding a drawn sword striding forw

I enjoyed this collection of Hindu fairy tales. Granted that some of the references were foreign to my culture, but Sir Richard goes a long way toward both explaining things and making wry commentary either about Hindu culture or humanity at large.

These comments are also in the narrative of the stor

เรื่องเล่าของเวตาลประหลาดดีและตั้งคำถามได้ปวดตับสม่ำเสมอ

เคยอ่านนิทานเรื่องนึงคล้ายๆนี้ เรื่องนั้นเป็นนกอะไรสักอย่างกับกษัตริย์อีกสักองค์ที่อยากจับนกจอมไหวพริบตัวนี้กลับวังมาก
เงื่อนไขของนกตัวนี้รู้สึกจะเป็น..ห้ามพูดประโยคต้องห้ามว่า "โธ่..น่าสงสาร" (หรือ "ไม่น่าเลย" อะไรประมาณนี้แหละ ..ก็ โธ่..อ่านมา

saddened that I could remember only one of these stories that I used to read so ardently every month in my childhood...more

great collection

An entertaining & unusual set of tales set within a larger storytelling framework. I found the intro & conclusion (which set the framework as to why the tales are being told) to be more interesting than the tales themselves. The vampire/baital is a tricky & fun narrator of these morality tales.

Altho

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