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| - | '''''Baital Pachisi''''' or '''''Vetala Panchvimshati''''' ("''Twenty five tales of Baital''") or '''''Vikram and The Vampire''''' is a collection of tales and [[legend]]s from [[History of India|India]]. It was originally written in [[Sanskrit]]. Like ''[[The Book of One Thousand and One Nights|Arabian Nights]]'', it is a set of tales, within a [[frame story]]. It concerns an encounter between King [[Vikramāditya]] and a [[Vetala]], an early [[mythical creature]] resembling a [[vampire]]. | + | # [[Merriment]]; [[gaiety]] accompanied with [[laughter]]; [[jollity]]. |
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| - | According to [[Isabel Burton]], the ''Baital Pachisi'' "is the germ which culminated in the ''[[The Book of One Thousand and One Nights|Arabian Nights]]'', and which inspired the "''[[Golden Ass]]''" of [[Apuleius]], [[Boccacio]]'s "''[[The Decameron|Decamerone]],''" the "''[[Pentamerone]],''" and all that class of [[facetious]] fictitious literature". | + | |
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| - | == From the 1870 preface by Burton == | + | |
| - | :"THE genius of Eastern nations," says an established and respectable authority, "was, from the earliest times, much turned towards invention and the love of [[fiction]]. The [[India]]ns, the [[Persian]]s, and the [[Arab]]ians, were all famous for their [[fable]]s. Amongst the ancient Greeks we hear of the Ionian and [[Milesian tales]], but they have now perished, and, from every account we hear of them, appear to have been [[loose]] and [[indelicate]]." Similarly, the classical dictionaries define "[[Milesiae fabulae]]" to be "licentious themes," "stories of an [[amatory]] or [[mirth]]ful nature," or "[[ludicrous]] and [[indecent]] plays." [[M. Deriege]] seems indeed to confound them with the "[[Moeurs du Temps]]" illustrated with artistic [[gouache]]s, when he says, "une de ces fables milesiennes, rehaussees de peintures, que la corruption romaine recherchait alors avec une folle ardeur." --[[Sir Richard Burton]] | + | |
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