There he took shelter in the shade of a welcoming pipal tree and began a long period of deep contemplation. |
He was sitting under a pipal tree in a little village named Buddh-gaya, southeast of Benares, when light dawned upon his soul. |
He spent his time reading scriptures, meditating and worshipping the pipal tree which seemed to bring him joy. |
The five meters statue long and carved in the stone places in an immense tree trunk of pipal. |
Among the section on trees, the pipal and the banyan were regarded as sacred or even as deities themselves in both Buddhist and Hindu traditions. |
This was a nest in course of construction, which the vulture was lining with pipal branches. |