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.