Vidyutprabha’s unselfishness is rewarded when the king
marries her. But her happiness makes her step-mother very jealous.
Sent by the king destroy a band of thugs, strange adventures befall the
valiant Agad Datta.
Sahsramalla the thief has outwitted everyone in the kingdom, from a petty trader to the king. And them he meets the holy monk, Vasuddo. These, and other stories in this collection, are taken from ancient sources – the Vasudeva Hindee, the Vardhamana-Desana and the Vaddaradhane. They were written by join monks, and there is a moral
core the funniest of incidents and the wildest of adventures.
