Vikram and Vaitaal
Stories From Other Sources
- Introduction
"These
stories have been taken from other sources, such as Internet sites, other
books etc. Our purpose to keep them here is not to copy them here, but to
keep them all at one place without losing them, as it is very common with
Internet sites that they disappear within no time. This site lists 6
stories in all.
1-The
Three Suitors
Once a
beautiful girl, Mandaraavatee, was born to a priest. When the girl grew up
her father got worried about her marriage. Once three boys came to him
asking her hand, and surprisingly three of them threatened him to commit
suicide if he didn't marry his daughter to him. Now the father got worried
how to solve this problem.
One
day Mandaraavatee fell ill. She had a high fever and died suddenly. All
three of them performed her last rites, but they were very grieved. So one
of them decided to stay there only. He slept on her ashes. The other one
took her bones and went to the Gangaa River. The third became a Saadhu and
started wandering around.
As he
was wandering around, he reached a Braahman's house. Braahman had the
power to bring a dead alive. He had a book in which the way to do this was
written. He used to keep it safely. So this boy stole the book in the
night and went to the place where they performed the last rites of
Mandaraavatee. The second one had come back from Gangaa River with her
holy water, and the first was one was still sleeping on her ashes.
So the
third one, with the help of the other two recited the spell from the book
and Mandaraavatee got alive. Now each of them claimed her because of their
effort.
Vaitaal
stopped here and asked Vikram - "Now tell me who should be the
husband of Mandaraavatee?" Vikram thought for a while and said -
"Who gave her life by reading the spell, is her creator, so he is
like her father; the one who took her bones to Gangaa River is like her
son; yes, the third one who slept on her ashes out of love could be her
husband."
As
soon as Vikram finished his answer, Vaitaal ran away and hung on the same
tree upside down.
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