Despite the popularity of ‘Vikram and Vetal’ stories, the end of the cycle of stories is not common knowledge.Ī new series on the stories of Vikram and Vetal is being broadcast on &TV They provided the source for children's stories published in magazines such as Ambulimama. The ‘Big Lettered Vikramaditya’ (literal translation of the Tamil Periya Ezhuthu Vikramathithan Kathai) stories are famous as chapbook publications. Since the Vetal stories end with a question, often leading to a proverb, the corpus of tales gained currency in multiple ways in the oral cultures, and they continued with the advent of print medium and television. In some of the Tamil versions, the King Vikramaditya and Vetalam stories are often presented as a set of tales complete in themselves, without any reference to the stories of the other statuettes. The 24 stories of Vetal are emboxed within the story of the second statuette. The master tale in the original Sanskrit version of King Vikramaditya's adventures ( Vikramacarita) is the story of 32 statuettes stopping King Bhoja from ascending the proverbial throne of King Vikramaditya, and each statuette narrating a tale to exemplify the latter's wisdom. However, when they do end, they indicate how cultures provide closures to meaning-making endeavours and reflective listening experiences.

Eminently placed in the oral tradition, the linked tales are precursors to the modern genre of the novel, but they can elastically expand in every retelling, every version and every interpretation. Among the Indian tales, Kathasaritsagara, Panchatantra and Jataka tales are also linked stories, and sometimes one wonders when would these tales end. The famous works in this category of tales are One Thousand and One Nights and Boccaccio's The Decameron. Narratologists categorise the King Vikramaditya and Vetalam stories as emboxed linked stories with one master tale framing the other tales within the tales. In 1989, the stories of Vikram Aur Betaal captured everyone’s imagination with the release of a TV series starring Arun Govil (King Vikramaditya) and Sajjan (Betaal) The famous tale of Vikram and Vetal is one such example. Eminently placed in Indian oral tradition, linked tales are precursors to the modern genre of the novel, but they can elastically expand in every retelling.

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