The Lord dwelt in the Sakka country near Kapilavatthu in the Banyan Grove.
In the fruit of the Banyan (fig-tree) are minute seeds innumerable.
As the whole world is a manifestation ol Brahman, so is the great banyan tree a manifestation of the subtle essence which is also present in its minute seeds.
Still most forms of Hinduism cannot like Buddhism be detached from the gods, and no extravagance is too improbable to be included in the legends about them.
In Hinduism, as in Buddhism, there is not wanting a feeling that the soul is weary of the crowd of deities who demand sacrifices and promise happiness, and on the serener heights of philosophy gods have little place.
Tuutúu lang nga taw-an nang dakíta, It’s nothing more than superstition that that banyan is inhabited by spirits.
Sirbátu kun matungud na ta sa taw-ang dákit, Blow your horn when we get near the enchanted banyan tree.
Ang gitubúan sa dákit, Where the banyantree was growing.
Then, smiling, I made her a compliment on her hair, which her Irish maid was dressing very prettily, and laughed at her man's banyan which she so saucily wore in place of a levete.
Only a young and pretty woman could presume to wear a flowered silk banyan at her toilet; but it mightily became Polly Johnson.
The hollow eyes of the skeleton among the banyan roots were focused upon the centre of the clearing.
I did not want to see any more; but as I turned away a whiteness among the octopus-like tentacles of the banyan compelled me.
It was tied upright to thebanyan roots by an iron chain, corroded with rust.
In the centre of the clearing was the skull of the horrible grin, and its staring orbits were turned upon the roots of the banyan tree.
The streets are well paved, and the inhabitants are mostly Banyan handicrafts, all white men of any note living in the suburbs.
The Banyan caste of Suerah has just resolved to abolish caste dinners after funerals, but if a wealthy Hindoo still wishes to indulge in these affairs he is permitted to do so after one year has elapsed.
We did not fail to visit the famous banyan tree of Calcutta, by far the largest in the world.
Hence the banyan day, though in reality a fast-day, became indelibly associated in his simple mind and vocabulary with occasions of feasting and plenty, and so remains to this day.
It was breezing up from the south-west, and banyan and cocoa-palm, artu and breadfruit tree, swayed and rocked in the merry wind.
Once we passed under a banyan tree, the limbs of which had been trained over the road twenty feet high, in shape of an arch, then taking root and forming other trees on the opposite side.
The twenty little boys were changed into twenty little banyan trees that stood in a circle, and the little girl was changed into a rose-bush that stood in the midst of the circle and was full of red and white roses.
She ran past the banyan trees without giving them a thought and began to break the flowers from the rose-tree.
At once she espied the banyantrees and the rose-bush.
Under the shade of a banyan tree, a grave-looking Moorman was amusing a crowd of boys and women with the recital of some wonderful or silly legend.
The first thing they came to, to ask, was an old Banyan Tree, by the wayside.
We were hiding amid the roots of a great banyan tree, and could see well.
An enormous banyan tree stands on the lawn at Barrackpore.
Lady Lansdowne thought she would have a bamboo house built in this great banyan tree for her little daughter, the same little girl for whom I had built the snow-hut at Ottawa, for she happens to be my god-daughter.
What the village oak is in England, that and much more is the banyan to the dwellers in the innumerable hamlets which overspread the face of agricultural India.
The most common expedient prescribed is the pounded shoot of a banyan tree placed in the wife's right nostril.
When Cumner's Son stood forth he was pale and astounded before the cries of greeting that were carried out through the Palace yard, through the highways, and even to the banyan tree where sat the beggar of Nangoon.
The beggar of Nangoon who saved our city, bid him come near," he said; but the orderly stepped forward and told his story of how the beggar had returned to his banyan tree.
So saying, he turned and ran lazily back to the Residency and sat down beneath the banyan tree.
A high sea-wall with a broad concrete walk, shaded by banyan trees, runs round it, a distance of a mile and a quarter.
It is quite flat and covered with carefully kept grass, intersected with concrete walks and banyan avenues, the tropical gardens of the rich merchants giving variety and color.
There was a dark surprising picture of Hindoos doing Penance under the Banyan tree, and a confusing view of the Himaleh Mountains.
The trouble was that he instinctively avoided any square facing of the difficulty that had multiplied with such amazing rapidity--like a banyan tree--about the present and the shadowed future.
They went to the Banyan tree, they sat down, Siddhartha right here, Govinda twenty paces away.
Some hundred people almost black, and destitute of clothing, were assembled under the boughs and among the stems of a hugebanyan tree, which formed, as Nowell remarked, a sort of natural temple.
I accordingly followed him, when, taking up his gourd of water, he led me to a small hut in front of a large and aged pippul-tree, a species of banyan or Indian fig.
One far-famed specimen has grown and spread like a banyan tree, its trunk and head supported by secondary stems that have struck downward from the branches.
The banyan tree of India is famous, striking its aA"rial rootlets downward until they reach the ground and take root, and thus help support the giant, horizontal limbs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banyan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ebony; oak; tree; wood
