Vikram and the vampire
Subtitle: or, Tales of Hindu devilry.
By: Adapted [from the Baitāl-pachīsī] by Richard F. Burton ... With ... illustrations by Ernest Griset.
Contributors: Burton, Richard, Sir, 1821-1890, tr.
Publisher: Longmans, Green & Co.
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; hin
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Tales -- India
Description: 11 tales, translated by Burton from the Sanskrit Baital-Pachisi, or 25 Tales of a Baital, "hung on [the] thread" of the "laughable" difficulties faced by King Vikram, "the King Arthur of the East," as he and his son attempt to bring a baitel (vampire) to a magician. Cf. Isabel Burton's "Preface" to the 1893 Memorial Ed., p. xi.