Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.137

c8.137

∗ Cunningham ("Archæol. Reports," i, 5) says of the pipal tree (Ficus religiosa) at Buddha Gayâ, which is looked upon as being this tree: "The celebrated Bodhi tree still exists, but is very much decayed; one large stem, with three branches to the westward, is still green, but the other branches are barkless and rotten. The tree must have been renewed frequently, as the present pipal is standing on a terrace at least thirty feet above the level of the surrounding country."