Characters:
› Narrator
› Pip:the papal, or banyan tree
› Bandevi:goddess of the forest
› Utti:the uttis, an evergreen tree growing in ravines
› Rhoda:the laligurans, or rhododendron
NARRATOR: Long, long ago, in the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal, trees used to get married.
PIP: Greetings, Bandevi, I am ready to match another pair of trees for marriage.
Have you seen beautiful Rhoda? Her blossoms fill the spring woodlands with a deep, crimson