peepul

plural peepuls · alternative peepal · alternative pipul · alternative pipal

1. The sacred fig, Ficus religiosa.First known use 1780s

   This was about the time she caught me in the branches of the peepul tree a good mile and a quarter up river on the banks of the Gambhiree, spying on the women who went there to wash their clothes and themselves.

   1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 138

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   The same is true of others of the gods; in the old Norse mythology Ygdrasil was the great branching World-Ash, abode of the soul of the universe; the Peepul or Bo-tree in India is very sacred and must on no account be cut down, seeing that gods and spirits dwell among its branches.

   1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 79

   Synonyms: bo tree, bodhi tree, pippala tree, ashwattha tree