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 108 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 Vetal written by Poile Sengupta and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Age old stories of Vikram and Vetal. The tales are retold in a short story/novel way.
Download or read book Vikram and the Vampire written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1893 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Simhasana Dvatrimsika written by A N D Haskar and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-01-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic tales of courage and compassion The fabled monarch Vikramaditya is considered a model of kingly virtues, and his reign a golden age. These famous stories narrated by the thirty-two statuettes of nymphs supporting the magic throne of Vikramaditya extol his courage, compassion and extraordinary magnanimity. They are set in a framework recounting the myths of his birth, accession, adventures and death in battle, after which the throne remained concealed till its discovery in a later age. A fascinating mix of marvellous happenings, proverbial wisdom and sage precepts, these popular tales are designed to entertain as well as instruct. Many have passed into folk literature. The original author of the Simhasana Dvatrimsika is unknown. The present text is dated to the thirteenth century AD. It exists in four main recensions, from which extracts have been compiled together for the first time, in this lively and faithful translation of this celebrated classic by a renowned Sanskritist
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.
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 178 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.
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 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Hindu Book of Tales written by Franklin Edgerton and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tricky Tales Of Vikram And The Vetal written by Deepa Agarwal and published by . This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vetal spins tale after magical tale of kings, queens, demons and enchanted lands, but the question he poses at the end of each story forced King Vikram into an unforeseen dilemma. Enjoy these delightful stories and discover how the noble King Vikram overcomes his trials.
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.
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 28 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.
Download or read book Illustrated Ramayana for Children written by and published by Wonder House Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptation of Vālmīki's Rāmāyaṇa; for children.
Download or read book Vikramaditya s Throne written by Poile Sengupta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl’s father goes missing A strange old man insists on his storytelling An ancient throne reveals forgotten tales When Upa's father gets kidnapped from the tiny village where he was working, she and her mother move to her great-grandmother's house in a small town, to recover from the shock. There the dejected and worried mother and daughter are befriended by an odd-looking stranger who insists on telling them stories of King Vikramaditya and his long-lost throne. As Upa and her mother listen to these magical stories they begin to see the goodness in the people around them and recognize the relevance of the tales of King Vikramaditya in their lives today. Funny yet thought-provoking, Poile Sengupta's retelling of these ancient stories makes them come alive like never before.
Download or read book The Five and Twenty Tales of the Genie written by Sivadasa and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half mythical, heroic and sagacious, the emperor Vikramaditya is widely regarded as India's greatest monarch. This collection of stories tells of the ruler's fabled encounter with a vetala, a genie who inhabits the body of a corpse. The emperor begs the spirit for his help against a mighty necromancer and is told in return twenty-four tales, each of which presents a situation he might face as a king and culminates in a riddle that he must solve. With each answer, Vikramaditya displays his deep wisdom, proving himself to be the ideal monarch and winning, in the twenty-fifth tale, the guidance he needs from the vetala to destroy his powerful enemy. Written down in medieval times but inspired by an oral tradition stretching back centuries, these wise and witty tales rank amongst the great masterpieces of Sanskrit literature.
Download or read book Tales of Vikram and Betal written by Mona Gupta and published by Mind Melodies. This book was released on with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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
Download or read book The Baital Pachchisi written by John Platis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
