The Banian hospital at Surat is a most remarkable institution.
On banian or fish days, our men preferred eating these roots with oil and vinegar to the best stock-fish[313].
Footnote 313: It is obvious that the banian or meager days, still continued in the British navy, are a remnant of the meager days of the Roman catholic times, when it was deemed a mortal sin to eat flesh.
Under that banian tree lay my dead comrade-- poor Shaw; I would have given a fortune to have had him by my side at this time.
The sense is this: when the universal destruction cones and all becomes a mighty expanse of water, there appears a banian tree under whose shade the immortal Rishi Markandeya sees a boy who is Mahavishnu.
Sraddhas are performed there under the banian called the Akshaya or inexhaustible banian.
Hence, of all abodes, the crematorium pleases my heart most, shaded that it generally is by branches of the banian and adorned with torn garlands of flowers.
Rubbed with the astringent powder of the hanging roots of the banian and anointed with the oil of Priyangu, one should eat the Shashtika paddy mixed with milk.
A short distance from the shore, some immense banian trees grew so high that the pigeons and parrots which swarmed in their branches for the fruit were often completely beyond reach of the gun.
Banian and sacred waringhan trees covered great stretches of ground, and dropped their fantastic roots into the steaming earth like living stalactites.
At noon we came upon a sandy stretch of soil that contained a few diseased cocoanut palms, fringed by a sluggish lagoon, and a great banian tree whose trunk was hardly more than a mass of interlaced roots.
At evening, when the fierce sun went down behind the great banian tree that nearly hid Mount Pulei, the kateeb would sound the call to prayer on a hollow log that hung up before the little palm-thatched mosque.
Is it any wonder that the American boy is bewildered, standing there under the great banian tree with a Malay in sarong and kris by his side, singing with his syrah-stained lips the glorious promises of the Koran?
It was a great trial, for, as the Banianmen were impracticable, there was nothing for it now but to go back to Ujiji, and try to get other men there with whom he would repeat the attempt to explore the river.
It was apparent that they had been instructed by their Banian masters to baffle him in every way, so that their slave-trading should not be injured by his disclosures.
Arrived at Ajmir, the Englishman fell among tents pitched under the shadow of a huge banian tree, and in them was a Punjabi.
He was dreaming, with a red and flushed face, under a banian tree; and the Englishman gave him four annas to arrange matters comfortably at Boondi.
After praying they went and sat under a banian tree, and all day long they had nothing to eat or drink.
Now on the very top of the banian tree was an eagle's nest, and in it there were several little eagles.
To this banian all the Company's servants are made subject; they are bound to obey all his orders, and those of his committee.
Gunga Govind Sing, anotherbanian of his, and one of his own domestic servants.
The banian tree, or Indian fig, is perhaps the most beautiful of nature's productions in that genial climate, where her luxuriance is displayed with the greatest profusion and variety.
Shermall, the Banian at Mokha, had made this man my friend.
And losing sight of the deer, the noble-minded sons of Pandu, fatigued and disappointed and afflicted with hunger and thirst, approached a banian tree in that deep forest, and sat down in its cool shade.
And some time after I behold in that expanse of accumulated waters a vast and wide-extending banian tree, O lord of earth!
But though adorned with every embellishment, that inspired her only with awe, like a beautified banian in the midst of a cemetery.
Therefore, quickly dress a canopy underneath the place where he is, which being done, the cane and the banian branch must be shot off simultaneously, with one arrow each.
This is an excellent holy bathing-place on the river Yamuna, known as Plakshavatarana (descent of the banian tree).
And reaching the site of the banian tree about the close of the day, the heroic sons of Pandu purified themselves by touching the sacred water, and passed the night there.
It is there that that mighty tree called the Eternal banian stands.
The citizens having ceased to follow, the Pandavas ascended their cars, and setting out reached (the site of) the mighty banian tree called Pramana on the banks of the Ganges.
The Banian or Indian fig tree, is perhaps the most beautiful and surprising production of nature in the vegetable kingdom.
The Panchavati consists of the asvatha planted on the east side, the vilva or AEgle marmelos on the north, the banian on the west, the Emblica officinalis on the south, and the asoka on the south-east.
On my side, therefore, I was civil to the Banian and after he had been some time seated he asked me through my interpreter if I would buy some rubies.
This last remark suggests the reason why Tavernier did not mention the sum demanded by the Banian for his diamond.
The banian escapes, in the night of his complexion and situation, the inquiry that a white man cannot stand before in this country.
The banian extorts, robs, plunders, and then gives him just what proportion of the spoil he pleases.
In the latter case the banian is in strict subordination, because he may always be ruined by his superior; whereas in the former it is always in his power to ruin his nominal superior.
I would patiently watch him as he stands drowsily under an umbrageous banian tree on a sultry day before the monsoon has burst and refreshed earth and air.
They plant the one by the side of the other with marriage ceremonies in the belief that otherwise the banian would not complete its peculiar mode of growth.
At last, we halted before a tenement of rude stones; crooked Banian boughs its rafters, thatched with fantastic leaves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banian" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
