1. Peepul Tree Trading Leather stud box; clothes brush.

2. The scriptures on the peepul tree leaves are very precious.

3. But if the next government again flunks reform, it could be the peepul itself that is smothered.

4. Revered by many Indians, the peepul has a habit of making room for itself, poking up through roads, sometimes smothering its rivals.

5. The tiger may be the animal most Indians associate with their private sector; but a more apt symbol is the peepul (sacred fig) tree.

6. Vedic people believed in the transmigration of the soul, and the peepul tree and cow were sanctified by the time of the Atharvaveda.