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A mendicant asks King Vikramaditya to carry a corpse from a cremation-ground tree without speaking. The vetala inside it tells a riddle-tale on each trip, and the king must answer if he knows the answer or his head will burst into pieces. Every correct answer breaks his silence and sends the corpse flying back to the tree, so the king's own integrity and knowledge undo his task twenty-four times.
Madanasundari's husband and her brother cut off their own heads at a goddess's shrine. The goddess lets her restore them, and she puts each head on the wrong body. Asked which man is now her husband, the king rules it is the one bearing the husband's head, because the head governs the limbs and carries identity.
Three suitors mourn a dead maiden. One carries her bones to the Ganges, one stays sleeping on her ashes, and one later revives her with a mantra. The king allocates their claims by the role each act mirrors: the one who gave life stands as father, the one who performed the funeral rites as son, and the one who stayed with her remains as husband. A dispute over a single prize is resolved by reading each claimant's deed as the enactment of a specific kinship role, not by ranking who contributed most.
In the final tale, a father marries a daughter and his son marries her mother, and the king is asked how their children are related. He cannot answer and stays silent. Because his silence is honest rather than evasive, the vetala rewards him by revealing that the mendicant plans to sacrifice him, which saves his life. Knowing where one's knowledge ends is treated as a higher wisdom than always having a judgment.