विक्रम चरित (उज्जैन सम्राट् विक्रमादित्य - पराक्रम, न्याय एवं ३२ पुतलियों की कथा सटीक)

PREFACE. IN presenting to the public an English version of the Adventures of King Vickramadetea, and the four Tales related by Veytal the demon king, comprised in this volume, the translator does not claim for himself anything more than what may be fairly his due. The work will, he trusts, be appreciated for its own merit. It is amusing, and well calculated to afford to juvenile readers, if indeed it may not prove as useful to those of riper years, wherewithal to wile away a few dull hours. It will also, he ventures to think, help to foster that taste for reading in the Natives of India which is now showing itself among them. To Europeans and others the work will, he hopes, be found acceptable, in so far as it contains a description of some of the forms and usages of Oriental life; and though the language in which it is clothed cannot, perhaps, be said to bear comparison with that of modern English authors, it will be found at least grammatically correct, the sheets having been revised by a friend who has had considerable experience in such matters, to whom the translator takes this opportunity of expressing his obligation. The translator is aware that others have preceded him in the field in which he now courts the favor of the public; but that circumstance cannot, he thinks, deprive him of any ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BOMBAY