Beneath a pipal tree I sat In lost despair; and thither to me came A pilgrim; and he glanced into mine eyes With sight that read the sickness of my soul, And sat beside me, and in measured words Like far-off song told me this parable: The Buddha came to where the sea Curled silver-white upon the land, And murmurs of infinity Breathed on the sand.
"Mr. Faust"
Arthur Davison Ficke
The exorcist takes a nail and goes to a pipal tree and orders the Brahm Deo to go into the tree.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell
The women of her family will, therefore, first marry her secretly to a pipal-tree, so that the tree may die instead.
"The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II"
R. V. Russell