English Translation of A R Krishna Shastry's Kathāmṛta
Story 9 19. Vikramasena carried the vetāla for the ninth time on his back. The vetāla started narrating yet another story – There lived a king named Vīradeva...
Story 12 19. Trivikramasena took the corpse on his shoulder for the twelfth time and started to walk. The vetāla began to narrate another story:- In the...
Story 15 22. Trivikramasena heaved the corpse onto his shoulder for the fifteenth time and began to walk. The vetāla began to narrate yet another story:- In t...
Story 17 24. Trivikramasena put the corpse on his shoulder for the seventeenth time and started to walk. The vetāla started to narrate another story:- Th...
Story 19 26. Trivikramasena, for the nineteenth time, picked up the corpse and heaved it onto his shoulder before setting out. The vetāla began narrating anoth...
Story 21 28. Trivikramasena, for the twenty-first time, hauled the corpse on his shoulder and head out. The vetāla began narrating yet another story: There li...
Story 24 31. The king Trivikramasena carried he corpse for the twenty-fourth time on his shoulders and left. The vetāla started narrating another story...
The minister Vikramakesarin finished narrating the story and said, “O king! The elderly brāhmaṇa narrated these stories and said, ‘Trivikramasena got everything...
Deva! Kaṇva narrated this story and said, “Whoever would face adversities with courage will get all the fruits later, not the people who would run away in front...
स वो विघ्नेश्वरः पायात् नमितोन्नमितेव यम्। अनुनृत्यति नृत्यन्तं सन्ध्यासु भुवनावली॥ [May Vighneśvara, whose evening dance is imitated by the entire worl...
तुष्टेन येन देहार्धमप्युमायै समर्पितम्। स वो ददात्वभिमतं वरदः पार्वतीपतिः॥ May Śiva, who has given half his body to Umā being pleased with her, grant yo...
One night sleep eluded him, he was thinking, “I’ve been deeply interested in her, I’ve neglected others, where are my other wives? Where are my ministers?” he h...