Vetālapañcaviṃśati

Vetālapañcaviṃśati is a Sanskrit prose narrative attributed to Śivadāsa, comprising twenty-five tales involving a vetāla (a kind of revenant spirit). The stories center around the legendary King Vikramāditya, who faces a series of moral dilemmas and challenges orchestrated by a necromancer threatening his kingdom. (Wisdom Library) In this manuscript, folios 21 and 50 are missing, and folio 22a contains mostly illegible, washed-out text. The leaves up to folio 22 exhibit damage along their upper-right edges. From folio 58 onward, the folios show partial damage. Although Matsunami notes that the final folio appears to have been replaced, it is consistent in appearance and format with the rest of the manuscript.