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- noun Dated form of
peepul .
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Examples
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-- The pippul tree of the Hindoos, which they hold in such veneration that, if a person cuts or lops off any of the branches, he is looked upon with as great abhorrence as if he had broken the leg of one of their equally sacred cows.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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I accordingly followed him, when, taking up his gourd of water, he led me to a small hut in front of a large and aged pippul-tree, a species of banyan or Indian fig. The tree was surrounded by a wall covered with a variety of carved work.
My First Voyage to Southern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The pippul had been before assumed by the first recorded Buddha; others had the iron-tree, the champac, the nipa, &c.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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