The Tiger King
Summary The Tiger King is the story of Maharaja Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur of Pratibandapuram, a brave warrior whose manner of death had been predicted when he was born. The chief astrologer had predicted that as the royal child was born in the hour of the bull, the tiger being its enemy, he would die at the hands of a tiger. The brave prince asked all tigers to beware of him. Therefore, he came to be known as the ‘tiger king’. When the prince became the king of his kingdom at the age of 20, he came to know about the prophecy and went on a tiger killing spree. After killing the first tiger he was told by the astrologer that he could go on killing the first 99 tigers successfully but he had to be careful of the hundredth tiger which could take his life. After killing 70 tigers, there were no more tigers left in his kingdom so he married a girl from a kingdom with a high tiger population to continue his mission. When his killings reached ninety nine, he desperately sought the next hun...