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Thr bendiax twixs take ROT, sa6 daughters
grow
Abou, The mother tree, pillared shade
/ High over srched, with eeho.ng walks be-
| tween"
Meantime the palm is pushing up~ ard,
embraced by the descending banian
shoots, which become so interlaced in
course of time that the trunk of the palm
is wholly concealed. At this stage ap-
pearance fatty cOntradicts reality; the
palm seems to be growing from the heart
of the bantam, rs though date seed had
taken root in the banian top. Possibly
the curious Hindoo custom Of marrying
trees of different species had its origin in,
or was suggested by,these natural unions.
The bantam Cfcus Indica) is one of the
great natural family, the urticacss, to
which our familiar singing nettle also
belongs. It bears small red fig or berry,
which in times of famine has afforded
food for thousands. An instance of the
vast extent of country which may be
covered by single-tree banian grove is
furnished by the island of Nerbudad,
which is entirely covered by one tree.
A considerable portion Of the island and
the grove growing npOn it has been
washed away by river floods during re-
cent years; but enough remains to make
one Of the noblest groves in the world.
The natives boast that it once afforded
shelter for troop of 10000 horses. An.
other extensive banian forest--all parts
Of one tree-occurs in the district of
Beerbhoom, in Bengal. 1t covers IAN
immense extent of country" and over
shadows more than four hundred temples.
The bride of the bantam, in the cere-
mony above alluded to, is usually the sa-
cred peepsk, or bo.tree (fcus reltgi0sa) 1t
is one Of the latter that inspires such
widespread reverence among Thibetian
and other Buddhists, from the circum-
stance that its leaves bear we'll marked
characters in their sacred language. That
these characters are not the work of the
priests who have charge of the tree seems
to be we'll established. A couple of
French missionaries who were permitted
to examine the tree report their inability
to discover the least sign of art in these
aculous-markings. 1--WE examined"
they write, Everything with the closest
attention, in order to detect some trace
of trickery, but we could discern moth
ing of the sort; and the perspiration alb
solutely trickled down our faces under
the influence of the sensations which this
most amazing spectacle created"
The mental attitude of these perspir
ing missionaries, when brought face to
face with an alleged miracle that bore
no evidence of trickery, is instructive.
That the markings could be natural
seems not to have occurred to them. DIR.
Hooker, from his familiarity with Nature
in India, was able to explain the miracle
offhand with the single word Tin .ects"
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