[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Story collections and fables](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories) › [Siṃhāsanadvātriṃśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.simhasana) › [Vikrama's Adventures, or The Thirty-two Tales of the Throne](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.simhasana~en-edgerton) › 9.p4.1 # Simhasanadvatrimshika 9.p4.1 Vikrama's Adventures, or The Thirty-two Tales of the Throne 9.p4.1 - **Language:** English ### [9.p4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.simhasana~en-edgerton.9.p4.1) While Vikrama was king his vizier was Bhaṭṭi, his sub-vizier Govinda, his general Candra, his house-priest Trivikrama. This Trivikrama had a son Kamalākara, who lived by the indulgence of his father, eating gruel with ghee, adorning his body with garments, jewelry, betel, and the like, and devoting himself to sensuous pleasures. One day his father said to him: “For shame, Kamalākara! How is it that you, tho you have obtained birth in the brahman caste, have thus become the slave of your desires? This soul obtains very many births in different stations, and finally thru the power of good deeds is born in a human womb; but even in that case only by exceptional virtue is it born in a brahmanical family. And tho you have obtained all this, you have turned to evil courses. You are always staying away from home, and return to the house only at meal-time. Truly your behavior is unseemly. Moreover, this is the time for you to study and acquire knowledge; if you do not acquire knowledge at this time, later you will suffer great grief. And it is said: 1. Those who are afflicted by passion and whose good sense is destroyed by youthful follies, so that they do not study the sciences while they are young, are despised in their old age, and afflicted in body, as a lotus in the cold season. And so: 2. - [Previous: 9.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.simhasana~en-edgerton.9.p3) - [Next: 9.p4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.simhasana~en-edgerton.9.p4.2) - [Up: 9.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.simhasana~en-edgerton.9.p4) ## Linked texts (1) - [Siṃhāsanadvātriṃśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.simhasana.9.p1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.simhasana~en-edgerton.9.p4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.simhasana~en-edgerton.9.p4.1) · Pramāṇa