The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie: Vetalapancavinsati
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Penguin Classics
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Edition
Reprint.
Publisher
ISBN
9780144000456
Length
lxviii+254p., 20cm.
Subjects
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, ...
