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
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