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Being thus balked the miser came down the pípal tree slowly cursing his own stupidity in having risked his horse to recover the things which his wife had given the rogue, and returned home at leisure. His wife, who was waiting his return, welcomed him with a joyous countenance, and cried, "I thought as much: you have sent away your horse to Kailása, to be used by your old father."
'Where are your manners? Don't you know it isn't decent to ask questions when people are in mourning? But the buffalo insisted on having an answer, so at last, with many sobs and sighs, the pipal replied 'The ugly hen painted. By jealousy tainted, The pretty hen dyed. Bewailing his bride, The cock, bald and bare, Sobs loud in despair; The pipal tree grieves By shedding its leaves!
And now, an hour later, the pipal was surrounded by thousands of Mahratta sepoys, for word had gone forth, the mysterious rumour of India that is like a weird static whispering to the four corners of the land a message, had flashed through the tented city that the men from Karowlee were to take the oath of allegiance to Sindhia.
Now he cried out: "This kabob of the cannon is cooked, and my arms are tired whilst you have talked." Rising he seized his tongs asking, "Who now will have it placed upon his palm?" "Put it here," Sookdee said, as he laid a pipal leaf of twice the thickness he had given Ajeet upon the palm of Hunsa.
When he had finished every morsel he disappeared. Now the Knifegrinder wriggled so desperately that the pipal branch broke, and he came crashing through the tree to the ground, without much hurt beyond a great fright and a few bruises. However, he was so dreadfully alarmed that he rushed into the sleeping-room, and rolling himself up in his quilt, shook from head to foot as if he had the ague.
That would be the end, then, of the safety of the secret. There was food for reflection there. What if the famous treasure of Sialpore were buried somewhere in the grounds of the River Palace! Somewhere, for instance, among those gigantic pipal trees. He folded the map and returned it to Sita Ram. "I'm expecting half a dozen officers presently. Show them in the minute they come.
Close by, within the walls of a Buddhist temple, or monastery, still grows the famous Bo or Pipal tree, the oldest living historical tree in the world, brought here 250 B.C. from Buddh Gaya in India.
On hearing this sad tale, the pipal became overwhelmed with grief, and declaring it must mourn also, shed all its leaves on the spot. By and by a buffalo, coming in the heat of the day to rest in the shade of the pipal tree, was astonished to find nothing but bare twigs. 'What has happened? cried the buffalo; 'you were as green as possible yesterday! 'Don't ask me! whimpered the pipal.
She was proud of her beautiful hair, and said to herself, 'I will not throw these hairs into the river, to sink in the nasty dirty mud, so she made a green cup out of a pipal leaf, coiled the golden hairs inside, and set it afloat on the stream.
The pipal or "ficus religiosa," is a large tree venerated by the Hindus; it affords a most agreeable shade, as its leaves are large, in the shape of a heart.
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