SACRED TREE
Ceylon lias been relieved to liear that the sacrecl Bo tree at Anuradhapura is not in such danger from termites as Avas once feared. Only a few decayed branches are affected, say experts. Anuradhapura, a ruined city famous for ancient monuments, was Ceylon's capital in the sth century B.C. At the height of its glory it covered 256 square miles, but was damaged in successive invasions and was finally abandoned as a royal residence in A.D. 769. The Bo tree is said to date back to 245 B.C. and to have been a branch of the still more famous Bo tree of Biulh Gay a. in Bihar, India, under which Buddha obtained perfect Avislom. This was a pipal tree which became knoAA'n as the Bodlii tree— v he Tree of Wisdom. When the InHan Emperor Asoka sent the branch o C\ylon, the most gjrgeous ccr<*~ nr:nies AA r cre held,
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 195, 5 August 1940, Page 3
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152SACRED TREE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 195, 5 August 1940, Page 3
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