Chaturang Katha-E-501-Padmavatii

Padmavati

King Vikrmaditya of Ujjaini had agreed to assist an exacting ascetic at certain midnight rituals of magic and necromancy. As a part of this, he had to fetch a vetala (a spirit of demon found usually inhabiting a corpse), observing strict silence all the while. The gruesome task also turned out to be an extremely difficult one. The vetala turned out to be a story-teller who demanded an answer to riddles he posed at the end of every story. If the king kept silent, knowing the answer, the vetala would break his head into a thousand pieces. If he spoke, the vetala would fly back to his tree. How Vikramaditya patiently answered the questions and how he ultimately won the favour of that very vetala Panchavimshati, many of Which we will Presenting in our CHATURANG CHITRA KATHA series. These stories were originally written in Sanskrit some time betwen the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. 

• Title                        : PADMAVATI
• Serial No.               : 501
• Pages                     : 36
• Script                     : English
• Publisher               : India Book House Pvt. Ltd.
• First Published in : ......