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From the epics · 1 telling · contested

Vayu and the Shalmali tree

A giant silk-cotton tree boasts that it is stronger than the Wind and strips itself bare before he comes.

Vayu, Narada, The Shalmali tree of the Himalaya, Brahma

Pan-India