Vikram Betal
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http://www.licindia.com/images/yogakshema/june/Vikram%2063-64.pdf
http://www.meltonfoundation.org/nraghavan/Plot_Vikram_Betal_MFBMS.pdf
http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/fairytales/vikram.pdf
Vikram – Betal
1. King Vikram after Betal
2. The Greatest Deed
3. Responsibility for Death
4. The Right Suitor
5. All for Love
6. The Princess’ Choice
7. A Treacherous Husband
8. An Act of Nobility
9. An Unselfish Robber
10. A Savior
11. The Real Claimant
12. More Talented
13. Whose Wife?
14. Four Suitors
More Vikram -Betal – Vol. 2
1. The Most Tender Queen
2. Change of Loyalty
3. Cry and Laughter
4. Rescue of a Robber
5. Killing of the Helper
6. A King’s Love
7. An Unworthy Pupil
8. A Demon’s Mercy
9. The Greatest Fool
10. Triangle of Love
11. A Wealthy Poor Man
12. A Tale of Foot-prints
13. The Magic Chain
14. Proxy-Wedding
15. Tale of a Pupil
16. End of the Wicked Sage
Stories of Vikram and Betal
The stories of Vikram and Betal, originally written in sanskrit, have been an integral part of Indian fairy tales for many centuries. Legend has it that King Vikramaditya (Vikram), the emperor of Ujjain promises a monk to bring Betal, the vampire as a fovour promised to him. The condition is that the king should bring the vampire in complete silence, lest Betal, the vampire will fly back with the corpse to its abode. As soon as Vikram attempts to fetch the corpse in which the vampire Betal was residing, the vampire starts to narrate a story. And at the end of every story it compells king Vikram to solve the puzzle of the story, thus breaking his silence. The stories thus narrates by Betal, the Vampire forms an interesting series of fairy tales.
The introduction shows the setting for the stories, and conclusion shows what happened after King Vikram fulfilled his promise to the monk.
Enjoy the stories:
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- Introduction
- The Vampire’s First Story. In which a man deceives a woman.
- The Vampire’s Second Story. Of the Relative Villany of Men and Women.
- The Vampire’s Third Story. Of a High-minded Family.
- The Vampire’s Fourth Story. Of A Woman Who Told The Truth.
- The Vampire’s Fifth Story. Of the Thief Who Laughed and Wept.
- The Vampire’s Sixth Story. In Which Three Men Dispute about a Woman.
- The Vampire’s Seventh Story. Showing the Exceeding Folly of Many Wise Fools.
- The Vampire’s Eighth Story. Of the Use and Misuse of Magic Pills.
- The Vampire’s Ninth Story. Showing That a Man’s Wife Belongs Not to His Body but to His Head.
- The Vampire’s Tenth Story. Of the Marvellous Delicacy of Three Queens.
- The Vampire’s Eleventh Story. Which Puzzles Raja Vikram.
- Conclusion
Short Stories: Vikram Aur Betaal
That’s Catch-22.
That’s Endless Loop.
Sounds familiar eh? 
That’s love! That’s life!
Vikram Aur Betaal
The legend says that King Vikramaditya, in order to fulfil a vow, was required to remove a corpse of betaal from a treetop and carry it on his shoulder to another place in silence.
Enroute, the spirit of Betaal (in the corpse) used to narrate a story to the king and after completing the story Betaal would pose a query that if he (The king) knew the answer, was bound to respond lest he will break his head into thousand pieces.
But if he does speak out, he would break the vow of silence and Betaal would fly back to the treetop, leaving the king inches short of his destination! The king would go after the vampire and start all over again. And so on and on.
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The stories of Vikram and Betal, originally written in sanskrit, have been an integral part of Indian fairy tales for many centuries. Legend has it that King Vikramaditya (Vikram), the emperor of Ujjain promises a monk to bring Betal, the vampire as a fovour promised to him. The condition is that the king should bring the vampire in complete silence, lest Betal, the vampire will fly back with the corpse to its abode. As soon as Vikram attempts to fetch the corpse in which the vampire Betal was residing, the vampire starts to narrate a story. And at the end of every story it compells king Vikram to solve the puzzle of the story, thus breaking his silence. The stories thus narrates by Betal, the Vampire forms an interesting series of fairy tales.
The introduction shows the setting for the stories, and conclusion shows what happened after King Vikram fulfilled his promise to the monk.
http://www.samasya.com/stories/vikram/vikram-betal.html
http://www.bharatadesam.com/literature/stories_of_vikram_betal/vikram_and_betal.php
http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/fairytales/vikram.pdf
