{"id":108,"date":"2010-10-11T17:18:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T21:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthegy.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2017-05-19T10:59:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T14:59:33","slug":"the-kalpa-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"The Kalpa Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthegy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kalpatree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-109\" title=\"kalpatree\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.earthegy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kalpatree-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kalpatree-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/kalpatree.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><strong>The Kalpa Tree\u00a0 of Hindu religion, a symbolical offering to the gods, is described by Hindu poets as a glowing mass of precious stones. Pearls hung from its boughs and beautiful emeralds from its shoots; the tender young leaves were corals, and the ripe fruit consisted of rubies. The roots were of sapphire; the base of the trunk of diamond, the uppermost part of cat&#8217;s-eye, while the section between was of topaz. The foliage (except the young leaves) was entirely formed of zircons. (Surindro Mohun Tagore, &#8220;Mani Mala,&#8221; Pt. II, Calcutta, 1881.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shop <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthegy.com\/\">earthegy&#8217;s online shop<\/a> for your favorite gemstones.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know more about the mythology and legends behind gemstones? \u00a0Grab my ebook <em><strong>Stories of the Stones<\/strong><\/em> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.earthegy.com\/myth-book.html\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kalpa Tree\u00a0 of Hindu religion, a symbolical offering to the gods, is described by Hindu poets as a glowing mass of precious stones. Pearls hung from its boughs and beautiful emeralds from its shoots; the tender young leaves were corals, and the ripe fruit consisted of rubies. The roots were of sapphire; the base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-info"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1951,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/1951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.earthegy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}