# Vikram and the Vampire — Character guide

> Key figures in Vikram and the Vampire by Richard F. Burton.

- [Raja Vikram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/vikram.md): Raja Vikram is the warrior monarch bound to carry the Baital to a Yogi, a duty that turns every journey into a battle of wits. He hates flattery yet craves it in his own person, and the Vampire exploits that vanity with 
- [The Baital](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/baital.md): The Baital is the spirit Vikram must deliver, but he turns every mile into a story session, spinning tales of love, villainy, and foolish parents. He flatters and mocks in the same breath, crying out in derision when the
- [Prince Vajramukut](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/vajramukut.md): Prince Vajramukut is a young royal undone by a glimpse of a lotus gatherer, neglecting his father's affairs to paint and tear her portrait in turns. His minister's son, trained to give advice only when asked, watches him
- [Jayashri](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/jayashri.md): Jayashri belongs to the Baital's gallery of dangerous women, the kind whose villainy the Vampire cites when weighing the relative treachery of men and women. Her designs entangle the tale's lovers and expose how desire c
- [Princess Padmavati](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/padmavati.md): Princess Padmavati is the beloved whose image drives Vajramukut to fever and folly, the still center around which his longing spins. Her beauty is celebrated, but her silence and distance make her a riddle the prince can
- [Madhusadan](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/madhusadan.md): Madhusadan is the ascetic whose charge sends Vikram trudging after the vampire, the hidden hand behind the king's ordeal. His motives stay veiled, but his command gives the quest its shape and its stakes. Without him the
- [Vishnu Swami](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/vishnu_swami.md): A character appearing in a story told by the Baital.
- [Manaswi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/manaswi.md): A character in one of the Baital's tales.
- [Shridat](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/shridat.md): A poor man who appears in a vampire story.
- [Unmadini](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/unmadini.md): A beautiful woman in one of the Baital's tales.
- [Bhartari-hari](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/bhartari_hari.md): A legendary king mentioned in the frame story.
- [Devasharma](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/devasharma.md): A Brahman or sage in one of the vampire's stories.
- [Dharma Dhwaj](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/dharma_dhwaj.md): A character in a story within the book.
- [Muldev](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/muldev.md): A pandit or wise man in a story within the book.
- [Shashi](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/shashi.md): A pandit character in one of the stories.
- [Gunakar](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/gunakar.md): A character in one of the Baital's stories.
- [Dharmadhwaj](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/characters/dharmadhwaj.md): A character in a vampire tale.

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