Occasionally confounded with this peepul is the banyan (Ficus indica), which is another sacred tree of the Indians.
Then there is the peepul or bo-tree (Ficus religiosa), which is held in high veneration by the followers of Buddha, in the vicinity of whose temples it is generally planted.
Birdlime is prepared from the tenacious milky juice of the Peepul and the Banyan.
It is commonly called by Europeans the Peepul tree, by which name, it is known to the natives of the Upper Provinces.
The Hindoos believe that the Peepul tree of which the foliage trembles like that of the aspen, has a spirit in every leaf.
How prodigally Gunga pours Her wealth of waves through verdant shores O'er which the sacred peepul bends, And oft its skeleton lines extends Of twisted root, well laved and bare, Half in water, half in air!
This place is really pretty from the avenues ofpeepul trees.
Brahmins, and as peepul trees grow again and rupees never do, the Brahmins are comforted.
Next she took one hundred and eight sand-grains in her hand, and then walked one hundred and eight times round a peepul tree by the river's edge.
But some peepul will spend money quicker fer fun than they will fer vittles or religion.
Hit takes a fire or a dog fight to show whuther peepul hev got eny judgment or not.
He kin walk ontu his hans better en some peepul kin on thar feet.
Thur's a heap uf peepulin this town never knowed ye amounted to enuf to be preached about.
Todd's face clouded, pulling his whiskers over the fence into his own yard, muttered: "The luck of sum peepulbeats hell.
Some peepulmay want Charley to dig fer 'em 'fore the winter's over.
But I s'pose peepul will want to look at the feller thet made hit.
Bet he'd never teched them sheets ef he'd knowed they wus fer layin' out dead peepul in.
We hed a good many dances through the winter, and our peepul is very fond uf dancin'.
Lin reckoned: "The reason Eli wouldn't tulerate drinkin' peepul in his trupe is bekus he is afeared the supply will run out.
And outside was the yellow dawn, the purple pigeons beginning to coo and sidle, the quivering hearts of the peepul leaves.
She had sat out since she had returned home, on her two square yards of balcony in the waning moonlight, looking down on the unseen shrine, hidden by the tall peepul tree whose branches she could almost touch.
Time slipped by with incredible swiftness in watching the squirrels and the birds, in counting the raindrops fall from a peepul leaf.
He is at the bottom of a stone cistern in the temple of Dalbhyeswar, under the shade of a noblepeepul tree on the bluff overlooking the Ganges, so you must go back to the river.
I wonder if the 'dorian', if that is the name of it, is another superstition, like the peepul tree.
Then they sacrificed the rams and uttering vows over the nails drove them into the peepul tree and went home, turning the heifer loose.
One day the peepul tree spoke and said to him "If you pour milk every day at my roots I will grant you a boon.
So they did as the Janguru advised and when the bags were placed on the heifer it walked away to a large peepul tree growing on the banks of a stream in another village and there it stopped.
But that evening a man driving his cattle home saw a young woman nailed to the peepul tree; and not knowing that she was a bonga he released her and took her home and married her.
There was once a Goala who was in charge of a herd of cattle and every day he used to bring the herd for their midday rest to the foot of a peepul tree.
Now all their six wives were witches and directly their husbands left home the six women used to climb a peepul tree and ride away on it, to eat men or do some other devilry.
A large peepul tree hung over it, and a number of Hindu soldiers were cooking under its shade.
Many houses built of wood and bamboo were levelled with the ground, the ruins at Langthabal greatly injured, and a peepul tree growing over a picturesque old temple torn off.
For one mile these palaces and temples line the bank, facing every way, joining each other at right angles, with ancient stairways and broken walls hidden under the foliage of some sacred peepul or feathery tamarind.
The Peepul or Bo-tree (Ficus religiosa) is held sacred by Buddhists as the Holy Tree and the Tree of Knowledge.
Teeka Sing, the Nana's war minister, had his "bureau" in a tent under the peepul tree there.
A Brahmin priest is placidly sunning himself on the river platform of the temple over the dome of which hangs the foliage of a peepul tree.
After all the bell does very well for the present in the peepul tree.
Meanwhile they have erected a little shelter of mats and bamboos in a peepul tree and have hung the bell there.
The peepul leaves shivered and sank for an instant into grave meditation on their late communings, and through the deepened quiet there poured the distant, monotonous song of running water.
He would never lie and stare up through the fret-work of peepul leaves and dream his boyish dreams of her.
On a high raised platform under a peepul tree were a number of people under vows, bound for Palni.
But Nanuk, serious, conscientious Nanuk, would set aside half his supper of curds on the sly and sneak out with it after sundown as an oblation to the mysterious village god, who lived in a red splashed stone under the peepul tree.
Indian forest-god dwells in the peepul or any other tree.
Dionysus was even called "the god in the tree,"* reminding us of Artemis Dendritis, and of the village gods which in India dwell in the peepul or the bo tree.
Presently introductions were effected all round, and Mark found himself under the peepul tree drinking tea and looking with keen interest at the new faces which would soon become familiar to him.
They sat obediently under the safe shade of a spreading peepul tree on the lawn, where stood the tea-table, which was covered by a spotless linen cloth and groaning with proofs of Mrs. Samptor's skill in the manufacture of cakes.
Was it one of the spirits said to inhabit peepul trees that whispered it?
Their route skirted the broad, winding reaches of the river, its banks fringed by peepul and casuarina trees, and here and there topes of cocoanut palms raised their graceful heads.
Here are fine specimens of the peepul tree--the sacred tree of India, massive as an English oak--and groves of mangoes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peepul" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
