Many people says what is the indian legend regarding the discovery of tea. There are many popular legends about the discovery of tea. Two of them are as follows – A Chinese emperor was used to drinking boiled water. One day he was boiling water, a twing from fire fell into the water. It gave a delicious flavour to the drink. It is said that those were tea leaves. An Indian legend goes like this. Once upon a time there was a Buddhist ascetic who fell asleep while meditating. So he cut off his eyelashes. Ten tea plants sprouted from the eyelids. When the leaves of these plants were mixed with hot water and drunk, sleep would disappear. Buddhist was indian legend regarding the discovery of tea