Vidyutprabha's unselfishness is rewarded when the King marries her. But her happiness makes her step-mother very jealous.

Sent by the king to destroy a band of thugs, strange adventures befall the valiant Agad Datta.

Sahsramalla the thief has outwitted everyone in the kingdom, from a petty trader to the king. And then he meets the holy monk, Vasudda. These, and other stories in this collection, are taken from ancient sources ??? the Vasudeva Hindee, the Vardhamana ??? Desana and the Vaddaradhane. They were written by Jain monks, and there is a moral core to the funniest of incidents and the wildest of adventures.