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The Great Tree Sage (Mahavriksha)

In the story Xuanzang heard at Kanyakubja, an ascetic who meditated on the bank of the Ganga so long that a banyan grew from his shoulder. He asks King Brahmadatta for a daughter and curses the ninety-nine who refuse him to become hunchbacked.

Sources: Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World, by Xuanzang, tr. Samuel Beal (1884) · see The Great Tree Sage (Mahavriksha)'s web

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Cited

Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World, by Xuanzang, tr. Samuel Beal (1884) § 5.1 Primary text (translation)