Looking for Vikramaditya tales - any pointers please!

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Gopalan Sampath

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Apr 9, 2018, 6:29:55 AM4/9/18
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I have a childhood  memory of Vikramaditya tale concerning discovery of his Simhasanam by King Bhoja during his royal hunting pastime. It goes as-

One evening  King Bojaraj on his royal hunting expedition was passing a beautiful fruit laden tree garden with troops. The garden keeper was resting under the tree. Saluting the King he stands up,   praises him and offers his entire garden for the king to rest with his troops. King accepts and orders his followers to take up the offer and rest there for the night. The entourage enters the garden. The gardener came down few steps from his resting place.Then suddenly he cried, Oh King is it worthy of you to destroy my livelyhood, the fruit garden by marching your entourage in? 

The King was taken aback and said, You had on your own invited us all in to rest in your garden. Hence we are in. The gardener retorted that he never invited him and troops to stay. The King though felt angry did not want to stay there anymore and ordered his people out. 

The gardner went back to his place under the tree. Once there, he once again repeated the same kind words offering the garden  to the King and troops to rest. King though felt strange he rejected his offer and asked his people to preoare to move. The gardener was very adament and begged the King to accept his offer. Once again the king ordered his troops to stay. A while later, the gardener again moved away from the tree he was resting and immediately he cried loud about the injustice the king and his troops are doing by occupying ht garden
This behaviour of the gardener made the king to suspect that something must be influencing the behaviour of the gardener. He made out that the gardener gets pleasing noble thoughts once he reaches the tree to rest. The king  orders his minister to dig up around the tree. To his surprise they find a beautiful radiant Simhasanam with 18 steps. He removes the Simhasanam to his palace and was intending to use it.

It was installed and the King approached it to climg. Right at the first step he was ordered by a deep voice commanding that he should listen to a tale and at the end a question will be put to him,   he should answer and  then decide further on ascending the throne.There were 18 steps leading to the throne.
Thus at every step he is stopped and was narrated a tale asked to answer a question and  decide whether he is fit to proceed further.

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सीताराम

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Apr 9, 2018, 6:46:26 AM4/9/18
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And based on your description it is not vikramaditya tales they are raja bhoja tales


On Monday, April 9, 2018, Gopalan Sampath <gopalan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Nagaraj Paturi

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Apr 9, 2018, 10:05:45 AM4/9/18
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Arvind_Kolhatkar

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Apr 10, 2018, 12:04:41 AM4/10/18
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Apr 10, 2018, 12:05:15 AM4/10/18
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I know that the following is out of focus for the thread here but let me mention it all the same.

I have a digital copy of Simhasana Battishi in Marathi, printed at the Serampore Press in 1814.  It carries a note 'वैजनाथ शर्मणा क्रियते.  It is known that Vaijanatha Sharma was a Marathi Brahmin who worked closely with Rev William Carey.  The book is printed not in Devanagari but in the Modi script which was more in use in those days for writing Marathi.  The book also carries a stamp with the writing on it 'किताब कालिज फोर्टवलियम.

Arvind Kolhatkar.

Gopalan Sampath

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Apr 10, 2018, 12:17:39 AM4/10/18
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Thank you sir!


On Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 12:05:45 AM UTC+10, Nagaraj Paturi wrote:
On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 4:16 PM, सीताराम <raam...@gmail.com> wrote:
And based on your description it is not vikramaditya tales they are raja bhoja tales

On Monday, April 9, 2018, Gopalan Sampath <gopalan...@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a childhood  memory of Vikramaditya tale concerning discovery of his Simhasanam by King Bhoja during his royal hunting pastime. It goes as-

One evening  King Bojaraj on his royal hunting expedition was passing a beautiful fruit laden tree garden with troops. The garden keeper was resting under the tree. Saluting the King he stands up,   praises him and offers his entire garden for the king to rest with his troops. King accepts and orders his followers to take up the offer and rest there for the night. The entourage enters the garden. The gardener came down few steps from his resting place.Then suddenly he cried, Oh King is it worthy of you to destroy my livelyhood, the fruit garden by marching your entourage in? 

The King was taken aback and said, You had on your own invited us all in to rest in your garden. Hence we are in. The gardener retorted that he never invited him and troops to stay. The King though felt angry did not want to stay there anymore and ordered his people out. 

The gardner went back to his place under the tree. Once there, he once again repeated the same kind words offering the garden  to the King and troops to rest. King though felt strange he rejected his offer and asked his people to preoare to move. The gardener was very adament and begged the King to accept his offer. Once again the king ordered his troops to stay. A while later, the gardener again moved away from the tree he was resting and immediately he cried loud about the injustice the king and his troops are doing by occupying ht garden
This behaviour of the gardener made the king to suspect that something must be influencing the behaviour of the gardener. He made out that the gardener gets pleasing noble thoughts once he reaches the tree to rest. The king  orders his minister to dig up around the tree. To his surprise they find a beautiful radiant Simhasanam with 18 steps. He removes the Simhasanam to his palace and was intending to use it.

It was installed and the King approached it to climg. Right at the first step he was ordered by a deep voice commanding that he should listen to a tale and at the end a question will be put to him,   he should answer and  then decide further on ascending the throne.There were 18 steps leading to the throne.
Thus at every step he is stopped and was narrated a tale asked to answer a question and  decide whether he is fit to proceed further.

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Avinash

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Apr 10, 2018, 1:57:34 AM4/10/18
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नमो नमः,

विक्रमार्कचरित्रम् इति नाम्ना द्वात्रिंशतः कथानां संग्रहोऽपि अत्र उपलभ्यते - https://books.google.com/books?id=kEFFAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=vikramarka+charitra&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMI37XCzZDSxwIVjv-ACh2UwQeW#v=onepage&q&f=false
pdf माध्यमेन एतस्य download शक्यम् ।

सादरम्,
अविनाशः

Sunder Hattangadi

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