The Stories
The name 'Betaal Pachisi' suggests the Betaal told the King 25 stories ('Pachisi' is derived from 'Pacchis' in Hindi, which means 'twenty-five'), each narrated while Vikramaditya is carrying Betaal to the mendicant, whereof each ended with a moral question answered by Vikramaditya.
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“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”
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