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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“A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.”
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