Betaal Pachisi - Introduction to 25 Stories of Vikram Betaal!
The great King Vikrama, distinguished as Vikramāditya (c. first century BC), guarantees a vamachari (a tantric alchemist) that he will catch a vetala (or Baital), a divine soul who dangles from a tree and possesses and quickens dead bodies.
Ruler Vikrama faces numerous troubles in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each one time Vikram tries to catch the vetala, it recounts a story that finishes with an enigma. In the event that Vikrama can’t answer the inquiry effectively, the vampire agrees to stay in bondage. In the event that the ruler knows the answer yet stays silent, then his head should blast into thousand pieces. What’s more if King Vikrama answers the question accurately, the vampire would escape and come back to his tree. He knows the response to each inquiry; consequently the cycle of finding and discharging the vampire proceeds with twenty-four times.
On the twenty-fifth endeavor, the Vetala recounts the story of a father and a child in the after-math of a pulverizing war. They discover the ruler and the princess alive in the confusion, and choose to take them home. In due time, the child weds the monarch and the father weds the princess. Inevitably, the child and the monarch have a child, and the father and the princess have a girl. The vetala asks what the connection between the two infant youngsters is. The inquiry stumps Vikrama. Fulfilled, the vetala permits himself to be taken to the tantric.
On their route to the tantric, Vetala recounts his story. His guardians did not have a child and a tantric favored them with twin children on a condition that both be taught under him. Vetala was taught everything on the planet yet regularly abused. Though his sibling was taught simply what was required however constantly overall treated. Vetala came to realize that the tantric wanted to give his sibling once more to his guardians and Vetala rather would be yielded as he was an ‘all- knowing kumara’ and by yielding him the tantric could be unfading and tenet the world utilizing his tantric forces. Vetal additionally uncovers that now the tantric’s arrangement is to yield Vikram, executing him as he bowed before the goddess. At that point tantric could then increase control over the vetala and present his spirit, in this way accomplishing his fiendishness aspiration. The vetala proposes that the lord asks the tantric how to perform his respect, then exploit that minute to execute the magician himself.
Vikramāditya does precisely as told by vetala and he is honored by Lord Indra and Devi Kali. The vetala offers the ruler a shelter, whereupon Vikram asks for that the tantric’s heart and psyche be cleaned of all transgressions and his life be restored as a decent living being and that the vetala would come to his help when required.