基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：224 页
出版日期：2007年12月
ISBN：0140455175
条形码：9780140455175
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：维克拉姆帝亚国王的32个故事

内容简介 The only edition available of the otherworldy tales from a golden age of Indian civilization

In India, Vikramaditya is held up as a model of kingly virtue, and his reign as a golden age of peace and prosperity. Dating from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, these tales, narrated by the thirty-two statuettes of nymphs supporting his magic throne, describe Vikramaditya exploits and extol his extraordinary courage, compassion, and kindness. Against an exotic setting of adventures and miracles, the nymphs relate fights with ogres, occult rituals, and travels to other worlds, as well as very human incidents of betrayal and rivalry. The only edition available of these colorful and instructive tales, this is an important addition to a growing library of Sanskrit titles in Penguin Classics.
作者简介 A.N.D. Haksar was educated at the universities of Allahabad and Oxford and has translated the Penguin Classics edition of Narayana’s Hitopade´sa. He lives in India.