Chandrakanta Santati (चंद्रकांता संतति) by erahu torrent - Drama torrents

The story is a romantic fantasy about two lovers who belong to rival kingdoms: the princess Chandrakanta of Vijaygarh, and the prince Virendra Singh of Naugarh. Krur Singh, a member of the Vijaygarh king's court dreams of marrying Chandrakanta and taking over the throne. When Krur Singh fails in his endeavour, he flees the kingdom and befriends Shivdutt, the powerful neighbouring king of Chunargarh (a renaming of "Chunar-fort", referring to the fort in Chunar that inspired Khatri to write the novel). Krur Singh coaxes Shivdutt to ensnare Chandrakanta at any cost. Shivdutt captures Chandrkanta and while running away from Shivdutt, Chandrakanta finds herself a prisoner in a tilism. After that Kunvar Virendra Singh breaks the tilism and fights with Shivdutt with the help of aiyyars . Chandrakanta, the novel, has many sequels, prominent being a 7-book series (Chandrakanta santati) dealing with the adventures of Chandrakanta and Virendra Singh's children in another major tilism.

Tilism and Aiyyars
Chandrakanta is notable for introducing the concepts of "Aiyar" and "Tilism" to Hindi literature.
Aiyar/a

According to Devaki nandan Khatri, An Aiyar (male) or Aiyara (female) is a secret agent cum spy cum fighter. He or she is expert in many arts like:

Disguise
Fighting skills
Spying
Science
Fine arts
Medical
Chemistry

Disguise is must (Aiyar/a may change him/herself into person of same or even of opposite sex but of resembling body built, by makeup).
Fighting skills are also must, for self-defence. An Aiyyar/a always owerpowers any small group of ordinary soldiers.
He/she may need to spy for taking out some secrets or for finding some missing persons.
Knowledge of science and fine arts is also necessary, as it may come handy many times.
Medical knowledge, and specially that of Anaesthesia is needed for him/her.
Chemical knowledge is also needed

In a nutshell an Aiyar is a Jack of all trades. But contrary to common belief, Khatrian Aiyar/a are unfamiliar with magic and spells. He/she may join into any king's or landlord's service or may remain free.

The items must for an Aiyar/a: Kamand (a long very strong cord used to climb over building secretly, or for tying opposite Aiyar/a or captured person/s) Batua or purse (used to keep necessary medicines, makeup items, money and dry fruits) Lakhlakh must also be in the 'Batua' (lakhlakha is a medicine, used to revive any unconscious person) Khanjar or dagger (for safety and for attack) Langot or short smart pants are usually worn by Aiyars (but not by Aiyaras) when in easy mood

Ethics of Aiyars:
Never kill or torture any other Aiyar/a (but can arrest him/her)
Never cheat your master
Never attack too many Aiyars over a single person

The novel depicts a number of friendly and unfriendly Aiyar.

Aiyars on the side of Virendrasingh include:

Tej Singh
Jeet Singh (Tej Singh's father)
Devi Singh;

Aiyars on the side of Chandrakanta:

Chapla
Champa

Aiyars on the side of Krur singh:

Nazim
Ahmed

Aiyyars on the side of Shivdutt (all except last two later joined the Virendra Singh's side):

Pandit Badrinath
Chunnilal
Pandit Jagannath
Pannalal
Ramnarayan
Ghasita Singh
Bhagwan Dutt

Later on in Chandrakanta Santati, many more Aiyyars were introduced, including mainly:

Bhootnath
Nanak
Bhairo Singh
Tara singh
Indra Dev
Kamla
Kamini
Sher Singh
Kamalini
Ladili/ Lali
Dhanpati/ Kundan
Tara (not to be confused with Tara Sing)
Harnam Singh (only name in this epic alloted to two totally different characters)
Bihari Singh
Raja Gopal Singh
Laxmi Devi (Gopal Singh' wife)
Mayarani (Gopal Singh' fraud wife)