Question

1. Sacred trees form an important part of the ecological heritage of
towns, villages and sometimes even Muslim dargahs are associated with trees. Some
plants are sacred to the individual deity; others are sacred to the place. Several plants
have been worshipped in India from time immemorial. Wherever the tulsi grows from the
Indo Gangetic plains to the shores of the Indian Ocean at Kanyakumari it occupies a
position of pride in the central courtyard of the house, tended to carefully, by the
housewife.
2. Apart from the elaborate myths connecting it to Krishna, the tulsi plant has several
medicinal properties.
3. To protect and revere this plant with so many medicinal properties, it was designated
as sacred, a fitting tribute to its role in providing invaluable healthcare. The worship of
plants is an ancient phenomenon in India. It is probably the oldest form of worship. The
association of a single tree with a sacred sthala or sthana is reflected in the chaitya
vriksha and sthala vriksha or literature and society.
4. When people turned to food production, the Mother Goddess or the Earth Mother
became the chief deity. Fertility, creation, and the world of plants and animals became
her blessings to her devotees. The worship of the tree was the adoration of her creative
abilities, symbolizing fertility so essential or the survival of the early people. Spirits-good
or bad—were believed to reside in trees. If the trees were worshipped, then the resident
spirits were pleased. As sacred forests were replaced by agriculture, a single tree was
left and was designated as 'sacred' tree.
5. The earliest temples were little more than images placed under trees. Later, the tree
and the image were enclosed by a fence made of wood, followed even by stone.
Numerous references are made in literature to trees as abodes of gods.
On the basis of your understanding of the passage, answer any ten questions
the twelve that follow.
(10which of these form an important part of the ecological heritage of India ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Sacred trees is the answer