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Vikram and the Vampire
Sir Richard Francis Burton
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In disputed cases of money claims, the king adhered strictly to established practice, and consulted persons learned in the law. He seldom decided a cause on his own judgment, and he showed great temper and patience in bearing with rough language from irritated plaintiffs and defendants, from the infirm, and from old men beyond eighty. That humble petitioners might not be baulked in having access to the ‘fountain of justice,’ he caused an iron box to be suspended by a chain from the windows of his sleeping apartment. Every morning he ordered the box to be opened before him, and listened to all the placets at full length. Even in this simple[Pg 34] process he displayed abundant cautiousness. For, having forgotten what little of the humanities he had mastered in his youth, he would hand the paper to a s. . . Read More
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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.
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