It is understandable to have police or other security forces deployed from the President to the Prime Minister or other leaders, but it is a bit strange to hear that a tree should be given 24 hours of protection. But this is absolutely true. There is a tree on the hill of Salamatpur between Bhopal and Vidisha, capital of Madhya Pradesh, which is protected like a VIP leader. With this, now you must be thinking what is so special in that tree, so let us tell you about it in detail. Four or five police personnel are deployed to protect this tree, which monitors it 24 hours.

Apart from this, a separate water tanker comes from the Sanchi municipality for its irrigation. Officials of the agriculture department also come here every week to check the tree. It is believed that every year 12-15 lakhs are spent on the maintenance of this tree. Actually, it is a peepal tree, known as Bodhi tree. In 2012, when the then Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited India, he planted this tree during that time. For your information, tell that Lord Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree 531 years before Christ. This tree has a very special importance in Buddhism.

It is believed that in the third century BC, Emperor Ashoka sent his son Mahendra and daughter Sanghamitra to Sri Lanka to propagate Buddhism by giving a branch of the Bodhi tree. He planted that Bodhi tree in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, which still exists today. At the same time, the Bodhi tree under which Lord Buddha attained enlightenment is actually in the Gaya district of Bihar. An attempt was also made to destroy this tree several times, but it was a miracle that a new tree would grow every time. At present, the tree was also destroyed in the year 1876 due to natural calamity, after which in 1880, the British officer Lord Cunningham brought the branch of Bodhivriksha from Anuradhapuram in Sri Lanka and restored it to Bodh Gaya. Since then that tree is still present there.

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