Pipal Tree

His eyes kept searching out the transformed figure of Ayesha the seer, who was resting in the shade of a pipal-tree in the company of Mishal Akhtar, her mother Mrs. Qureishi, and the lovesick Osman with his bullock. ❋ Rushdie, Salman (1967)

The women of her family will, therefore, first marry her secretly to a pipal-tree, so that the tree may die instead. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)

It hung straight and black down into the shadows of the pipal-tree. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

'I came by a rope from the palace to the pipal-tree, and thence to the south wall, and thence to the river bed. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)

Our tents are played upon by the flickering shadows of the vast pipal-tree that rises in a laocoön tortuosity of roots out of an old well. ❋ George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1864)

He spent the hours between sunrise and the sunset in an old pipal-tree before the tower, hanging with his head downwards. ❋ Unknown (1861)

In their own tribunals under the pipal-tree or cotton-tree, imagination commonly did what the deities, who were supposed to preside, had the credit of doing. ❋ Alexander Wilder (1861)

The pipal-tree is generally supposed to be occupied by one of the ❋ Alexander Wilder (1861)