The Five and Twenty Tales of the Genie

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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.

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There are no biographical details available for Sivadasa.

Chandra Rajan studied at St Stephen's College, Delhi, and at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780140455199
ISBN-10:	0140455191
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Sivadasa
Übersetzung:	Rajan, Chandra
Hersteller:	Penguin Books Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	197 x 130 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Sivadasa
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.08.2006
Gewicht:	0,254 kg