The most celebrated episode took place as recently as 1730 in the village of Kejarli, near Jodhpur. The land around this village was, as it is today, makes for a pitiless landscape. Scant rainfall allows but four months of farming. People share the grains they raise with animals in need. Gazelles and black-buck roam with abandon, confident that the folks all around are the loving kind.
Peacocks amble with leisure.
Defiance and devotion. To this scene, in 1730, the ruler Raja Abhaya Singh sent his soldiers to fell trees for the fort he was building. He needed fuel for his limestone kiln. Amrita Devi, stood in the way. She explained to the soldiers the importance of trees to their faith and survival.