Note 20 — Chapter VII · TREE AND SERPENT WORSHIP.
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In the village of Vadāl near Bhiyāl in the Junāgadh State there is a banyan tree called Lāl Vad said to have sprung from the sticks of a Vad (banyan) used as tooth brushes by Lāl Bāva, a preceptor of the Vaishnav school. A silver staff and silver umbrella belonging to Lāl Bāva are kept near this tree, which is visited and worshipped by the followers of the preceptor.20