The Baitâl Pachchisi; Or, The Twenty-Five Tales of a Sprite / Translated From the Hindi Text of Dr. Duncan Forbes
by Lallu Lal active 1805 Mazhar Ali Khan Vila John T. Platts
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Chapters (36)
- THE BAITÂL PACHCHISI
- Or, The Twenty-Five Tales Of a Sprite
- Translated From The Hindi Text of Dr. Duncan Forbes
- (One of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Schools in the Central Provinces of India) London: Wm. H. Allen & Co.
- 1871
- TRANSLATORS PREFACE.
- PREFACE
- THE BAITÂL PACHCHISI.
- INTRODUCTORY TALE.
- TALE I.
- TALE II.
- TALE III.
- TALE IV.
- THE MAINA’S STORY.
- THE PARROT’S STORY.
- TALE V.
- TALE VI.
- TALE VII.
- TALE VIII.
- TALE IX.
- TALE X.
- TALE XI.
- TALE XII.
- TALE XIII.
- TALE XIV.
- TALE XV.
- TALE XVI.
- TALE XVII.
- TALE XVIII.
- TALE XIX.
- TALE XX.
- TALE XXI.
- TALE XXII.
- TALE XXIII.
- TALE XXIV.
- TALE XXV.
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