Vikram and the Vampire: Or, Tales of Hindu DevilryLongmans, Green & Company, 1870 - 319 sivua 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. |
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amongst anchorite arms asked Baital Baniya beautiful became began Birbal body Brahman called Chandraprabha Chandravati Churaman cried daughter dead Deity demon Devasharma devotee Dharma Dhwaj ears earth elephants exclaimed eyes father flowers Gaur gave girl give goddess gods ground hair hand happy head heard hearing heart heaven Hindu husband Indra jewels Jogi Kali Yug King Vikram laughing learned look Madhusadan Manaswi marriage married matter mind minister's mother Muldev never night once Padmavati palace Pandits parrot person present princess punishment quoth Raja Vikram Raja's Rajput Rakshasa Randhir replied royal sage Sanskrit Shiva Shudras Sita sitting story Subichar sword tale tell thee thief things thou thought told tongue took tree Ujjayani Unmadini Vajramukut Vampire VAMPIRE'S Vedas Vikramaditya Vishnu voice warrior king whilst wife wise woman women wonderful words worship Yama young prince youth
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Sivu 81 - ... a barren wife may be superseded by another in the eighth year; she whose children are all dead, in the tenth; she who brings forth only daughters, in the eleventh; she who speaks unkindly,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delay; but she who, though afflicted with illness, is beloved and virtuous, must never be disgraced, though she may be superseded by another wife with her own consent.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 198 - 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 184 - 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 37 - 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 196 - ... plants ; tasting honey, flesh ; taking the wealth of others ; taking by force a married woman ; eating flowers, butter, cheese; and worshipping the gods of other religions. To abandon entirely the abover mentioned, is to be a proper Jain.
Sivu 224 - Scrvillaka be his own protection. Am I not a cat in climbing, a deer in running, a snake in twisting, a hawk in darting upon the prey, a dog in baying man, whether asleep or awake ? in assuming various forms, am I not Maya herself, and Saraswati in the gift of tongues.? A lamp in the night, a mule in a defile, a horse by land, a boat by water, a snake in motion, and a rock in stability?
Sivu 231 - 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,...
Sivu 199 - ... 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 51 - 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 196 - Before parting they divided the relics of the beloved one, and then they went their way. Tribikram, having separated and tied up the burnt bones, became one of the Vaisheshikas, in those days a powerful sect. He solemnly forswore the eight great crimes, namely: feeding at night; slaying any animal; eating the fruit of trees that give milk, or pumpkins or young bamboos: tasting honey or flesh; plundering the wealth of others; taking by force a married woman; eating flowers, butter, or cheese; and...