Betaal Pachisi written nearly 2,500 years ago by Mahakavi Somdev Bhatt, are spellbinding stories told to the wise King Vikramaditya by the wily ghost Betaal. The tales of Vikram and Betaal possess a wealth of pageantry and splendor of long ago.
Vikram was the name of a king. He ruled over a city on the banks of
Godavari River. He was very famous for his bravery and courage.
People loved him because he always rendered justice.
One day a sage came to the court of Vikram and gifted him a fruit.
The king handed it over to his treasurer. Thereafter, the sage kept
coming to the court daily to gift a fruit to the king. The king could not
understand the reason behind this behaviour. But still he did not try to
find out the sage's intentions.
However, one morning, Vikram noticed a monkey sitting on the
palace wall and gave the fruit to it. The monkey had started eating the
fruit when suddenly a dazzling gem fell out of it. The King was very
surprised. He immediately ordered his treasurer to get him all the
fruits kept in the storage. The fruits had gone bad but when the king
had them crushed, each one of them yielded a precious gem. The
generous King donated all these gems to the poor and waited for the
sage's visit to the court.
The next day, the sage visited the court of Vikram with yet another
fruit.
Vikram welcomed the sage and asked him "Your Holiness! Can you
please tell me why you have been giving me such precious gifts?
Without good reason, I cannot accept any gifts from you."
The sage replied, "I need the help of a brave man for a spiritual goal.
Will you help me?" Vikram readily agreed to this. So the sage said,
"O King, please come to the burial ground on the next moonless
night. It is at a distance of 20 miles from here. I will wait for you
under a banyan tree." Vikram agreed to follow the instructions.
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