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Book Synopsis Vikram and the Vampire by : Richard F. Burton
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire written by Richard F. Burton and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baital-Pachisi, or Twenty-five Tales of a Baital is the history of a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies. It is an old, and thoroughly Hindu, Legend composed in Sanskrit, and is the germ which culminated in the Arabian Nights, and which inspired the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius, Boccacio's "Decamerone," the "Pentamerone," and all that class of facetious fictitious literature. The story turns chiefly on a great king named Vikram, the King Arthur of the East, who in pursuance of his promise to a Jogi or Magician, brings to him the Baital (Vampire), who is hanging on a tree. It is an old Hindu folk tale that was translated by Sir Richard R. Burton from the original Sanskrit.
Book Synopsis Vikram and the Vampire by : Natasha Sharma
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire written by Natasha Sharma and published by Young Zubaan, an imprint of Zubaan. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vampire piggybacking on a king's back while spinning stories and riddles! Poor King Vikram! Tasked by the sorcerer Shaitanish to bring him a corpse, he finds that a vampire named Betal has taken residence in it. He’ll come along only if King Vikram lends a willing ear to a series of riddling tales. There’s the one about the world’s most sensitive ladies: Queens Touchmenot, Itsratherhot and Oohmyhead. There’s the tale of the four foolish brothers Nin, Com, Poo and Oops. Each tale is crazier, funnier, madder than the last, and even if King Vikram doesn’t enjoy the journey - you sure will! The story of Vikram and Betal is over a thousand years old. See this much-loved traditional tale come alive with Priya Kuriyan’s fabulous illustrations. Published by Zubaan.
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire written by and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1870 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 tales, translated by Burton from the Sanskrit Baital-Pachisi, or 25 Tales of a Baital, "hung on [the] thread" of the "laughable" difficulties faced by King Vikram, "the King Arthur of the East," as he and his son attempt to bring a baitel (vampire) to a magician. Cf. Isabel Burton's "Preface" to the 1893 Memorial Ed., p. xi.
Download or read book Listen, O King! written by Sivadasa and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘If you know the answer and do not respond, your head will shatter into pieces!’ In a land of glorious kings, bloodthirsty demons and talking spirits, was born the lore of Vikram and the Vetal. After a series of mysterious events, King Vikramaditya carries the vetal, a witty ghost, on a long journey through death's playground. The vetal narrates the most fascinating tales and asks the most puzzling riddles, leaving Vikram completely stumped. Deepa Agarwal's beautiful translation brings age-old wisdom alive through the vetal's wondrous stories that are bound to confound and captivate readers even today.
Book Synopsis Vikram and the Vampire, Or, Tales of Hindu Devilry by : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire, Or, Tales of Hindu Devilry written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11 tales, translated by Burton from the Sanskrit Baital-Pachisi, or 25 Tales of a Baital, "hung on [the] thread" of the "laughable" difficulties faced by King Vikram, "the King Arthur of the East," as he and his son attempt to bring a baitel (vampire) to a magician (p. xi).
Book Synopsis Vikram and the Vampire by : Richard F. Burton
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire written by Richard F. Burton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Vikram and the Vampire by Richard F. Burton
Book Synopsis Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry by : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1903-01-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The genius of Eastern nations,’ says an established and respectable authority, ‘was, from the earliest times, much turned towards invention and the love of fiction. The Indians, the Persians, and the Arabians, were all famous for their fables. Amongst the ancient Greeks we hear of the Ionian and Milesian tales, but they have now perished, and, from every account that we hear of them, appear to have been loose and indelicate.’ Similarly, the classical dictionaries define ‘Milesiæ fabulæ’ to be ‘licentious themes,’ ‘stories of an amatory or mirthful nature,’ or ‘ludicrous and indecent plays.’ M. Deriége seems indeed to confound them with the ‘Mœurs du Temps’ illustrated with artistic gouaches, when he says, ‘une de ces fables milésiennes, rehaussées de peintures, que la corruption romaine recherchait alors avec une folle ardeur.’
Book Synopsis Vikram and the Vampire by : Richard F. Burton
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire written by Richard F. Burton and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-06-11T19:48:27Z with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baital Pachisi, also known as Vikram-Betaal, is a collection of Hindu tales featuring King Vikramaditya as the hero. Eleven of these tales were adapted from Sanskrit to English by Richard F. Burton as Vikram and the Vampire. A tantric yogi is after King Vikram’s life because of the wrongdoings of his father. He fools the brave king into bringing him Baital (a vampire) hanging from a siras tree. Baital, in turn, traps the king in an endless loop of stories. If King Vikram answers any question posed by the vampire during his storytelling, the vampire will escape back to the tree, and the king will have to start again. Will King Vikram be able to escape Baital’s trap? What doom awaits the king when finally meets his nemesis? This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Book Synopsis The Best of Vikram Betal by : Pratibha Kasturia
Download or read book The Best of Vikram Betal written by Pratibha Kasturia and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Best of Vikram-Betal by : Sunita Pant Bansal
Download or read book The Best of Vikram-Betal written by Sunita Pant Bansal and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from the Vetālapañcaviṃśati, Sanskrit tales about Vikramāditya Sākārī, King of Ujjain.
Book Synopsis Twenty-Two Goblins by : Arthur William Ryder
Download or read book Twenty-Two Goblins written by Arthur William Ryder and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-20 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book The Bird King written by G. Willow Wilson and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR’s 50 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Decade: A fifteenth-century palace mapmaker must hide his powers in the time of the Inquisition . . . Award-winning author G. Willow Wilson’s debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King, an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Fatima is a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain. Her dearest friend, Hassan, the palace mapmaker and the one man who doesn’t leer at her with desire, has a secret—he can draw maps of places he’s never seen and bend the shape of reality. When representatives of the newly formed Spanish monarchy arrive to negotiate the sultan’s surrender, Fatima befriends one of the women, not realizing that she will see Hassan’s gift as sorcery and a threat to Christian Spanish rule. With their freedoms at stake, what will Fatima risk to save Hassan and escape the palace walls? As the two traverse Spain with the help of a clever jinn to find safety, The Bird King asks us to consider what love is and the price of freedom at a time when the West and the Muslim world were not yet separate. “Wilson has a deft hand with myth and with magic, and the kind of smart, honest writing mind that knits together and bridges cultures and people.” —Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology “A triumph . . . one of the best fantasy writers working today.” —BookPage “A treasure-house of a novel, thrilling, tender, funny, and achingly gorgeous. I loved it.” —Lev Grossman, author of the Magicians trilogy
Book Synopsis Vikram and the Vampire by : Richard Francis Burton
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire written by Richard Francis Burton and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vikram and the Vampire is Richard Francis Burton's adaptation of the 'Baital Pachisi' - a collection of folk-tales from India. One of the oldest revisions of the text is to be found in an eleventh century work of Sanskrit called the Kathasaritsagara. Translated many times, Burton's is probably the best known English version. The tale is about the King Vikrama, who makes a promise to a sorcerer that he will capture a spirit. This process involves answering the riddles of the spirit, and if the King fails, he also fails to capture it. Finally the spirit agrees to be taken, but along the way, tells the King of the sorcerer's true plans - which involve killing the King, gaining control over the spirit, and ruling the world.
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Interesting Tales of Vikram Betal by : Pratibha Kasturia
Download or read book Interesting Tales of Vikram Betal written by Pratibha Kasturia and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of Vikram and Betal, originally written in Sanskrit, have been an integral part of the Indian fairy tales for many centuries. Legend has it that King Vikramaditya (Vikram), the Emperor of Ujjain promises a monk to bring Betal, the vampire as a favour promised to him. The condition is that the King should bring the vampire with complete silence otherwise the vampire will fly back with corpse to the tree. As soon as Vikram attempts to fetch the corpse, the vampire starts to narrate a story. And at the end of every story, it compels King Vikram to answer his question, thus breaking his silence. The collection of Vikram and Betal stories bring before the young readers some of the most amazing tales ending with a moral. Hope the children will enjoy reading them.
Book Synopsis Vikram and the Vampire by : Richard Francis Sir Burton
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire written by Richard Francis Sir Burton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into "Vikram and the Vampire," a captivating collection of Hindu tales curated by Richard Francis Sir Burton. Explore India's rich folklore, filled with adventure, magic, and romance. Edited by Isabel Lady Burton, this anthology seamlessly blends the supernatural with traditional narratives, offering a unique window into Indian storytelling and its enchanting world of vampires and myths.
Book Synopsis Tales Of Vikram And Betal by : Mona Gupta
Download or read book Tales Of Vikram And Betal written by Mona Gupta and published by Mind Melodies. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tales of King Vikram and vampire Betal have been a part of the treasury of Indian stories since centuries. While Vikram is entrusted with the task of getting Betal to a monk, the vampire is clever enough to tempt and compel the mighty king into speaking, so that he would fly back to his tree and escape the monk. This collection of Vikram and Betal stories brings before the young readers some of the most amazing tales ending with a moral.
