# Madhusadan — Vikram and the Vampire character guide

> Madhusadan in Vikram and the Vampire by Richard F. Burton.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** the Yogi Madhusadan, the Yogi

**First appearance:** 0003-vikram-and-the-vampire

## Snapshot

A yogi who dispatches Raja Vikram on the errand to fetch the Baital, setting the whole night-journey in motion.

## Who they are

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 there is no errand, no tree, no tale — he is the quiet hinge on which the book's frame turns.

## In the story

### [The Vampire's Sixth Story](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vikram_and_the_vampire_se/chapters/the-vampire-s-sixth-story)

One of the three suitors; he becomes a Yogi, practicing severe austerities and meditation to transcend desire.

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