Vikram and the Vampire: Or, Tales of Hindu DevilryDover Publications, 1870 - 319 sivua Translated by the noted Victorian Orientalist, Sir Richard F. Burton, from the original Sanskrit, these ancient Indian folk tales influenced such later works as 1001 Arabian Nights and Boccaccio's Decameron. First published in 1870, these stories will entertain and delight modern readers while illuminating the life and customs of classical India. |
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amongst anchorite arms asked Baital beautiful became began Birbal body Brahman called Chandraprabha Chandravati Churaman cried dark daugh daughter dead death Deity demon Devasharma devotee Dharma Dhwaj ears earth elephants exclaimed eyes face father Gaur gave girl give goddess gods ground hair hand happy head heard hearing heart heaven Hindu husband Indra Jogi Kali Yug King Vikram laughing learned look Madhusadan maiden Manaswi marriage married matter mind minister's mother Muldev night once Padmavati palace Pandits parrot passed person present princess quoth Raja Vikram Raja's Rajput Rakshasa Randhir replied robbers royal sage Sanskrit Shiva Shudras Sita sitting story Subichar tell thee thief things thou thought tion told tongue took tree Ujjayani uncon Unmadini Vajramukut Vampire VAMPIRE'S Vikramaditya Vishnu warrior king whilst wife wise woman women wonderful words worship Yama young prince youth
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Sivu 84 - ... a barren wife may be superseded by another in the eighth year; she whose children are all dead, in the tenth; she who brings forth only daughters, in the eleventh; she who speaks unkindly, without delay; but she who, though afflicted with illness, is beloved and virtuous, must never be disgraced, though she may be superseded by another wife with her own consent.
Sivu 197 - When the father of a family perceives his muscles become flaccid and his hair grey, and sees the child of his child, let him then seek refuge in a forest.
Sivu 183 - No other effectual duty is known for virtuous women, at any time after the death of their lords, except casting themselves into the same fire. As long as a woman (in her successive transmigrations) shall decline burning herself, like a faithful wife, on the same fire with her deceased lord, so long shall she be not exempted from springing again to life in the body of some female animal.
Sivu 40 - Now, brother," said the dying man, "Look to my children dear; Be good unto my boy and girl, No friends else have they here: To God and you I recommend My children dear this day; But little while be sure we have Within this world to stay. "You must be father and mother both, And uncle all in one; God knows what will become of them, When I am dead and gone.
Sivu 160 - Be pleased not to do this," she replied; " it will be sinful, and it will involve me in the guilt and punishment of shedding blood; hence I shall be miserable in this world and in that to be." "Thy blandishments," he replied, "have pierced my heart, and the consuming thought of parting from thee has burnt up my body, and memory and understanding have been destroyed by this pain; and from excess of love I have no sense of right or wrong. But if thou wilt make me a promise, I will live again.
Sivu 28 - NO. CCCCLX. posture, began in solemn tones to speak as follows : ' In short, the history of the matter is, that three men were born in this same good city of Ujjayani, in the same lunar mansion, in the same division of the great circle described upon the ecliptic, and in the same period of time. You, the first, were born in the house of a king. The second was an oilman's son, who was slain by the third, a jogi or anchorite, who kills all he can, wafting the sweet scent of human sacrifice to the nostrils...
Sivu 198 - ... where the clouds pour the heaviest showers ; in the cold season, let him wear humid vesture ; and let him increase by degrees the austerity of his devotion. Then, having reposited his holy fires, as the law directs, in his mind, let him live without external fire, without a mansion, wholly silent, feeding on roots and fruit.
Sivu 54 - Prayers, penances, and sacrifices are supposed to possess an inherent and actual value, in no degree depending upon the disposition or motive of the person who performs them. They are drafts upon Heaven, for which the Gods cannot refuse payment. The worst men, bent upon the worst designs, have in this manner obtained power which has made them formidable to the Supreme Deities themselves, and rendered an Avatar or Incarnation of Veeshnoo the Preserver, necessary.
Sivu 55 - I propose to ask thee a number of questions, concerning which we will, if it seems fit to thee, make this covenant : — " Whenever thou answerest me, either compelled by fate or entrapped by my cunning into so doing, or thereby gratifying thy vanity and conceit, I leave thee and return to my favorite...
Sivu 228 - And the success of his book had quite effaced from the Brahman mind the holy man's failure in bringing up his children. He followed up this by adding to his essay on education a twentieth tome, containing recipes for the "Reformation of Prodigals." The learned and reverend father received his sons with open arms. He had heard from his brother-in-law that the youths were qualified to support themselves, and when informed that they wished to make a public experiment of their science, he exerted himself,...