Originally worn in India

Usage examples of banyan.

He made us want to see the lush, green country, the big houses with their lawns dominated by the spreading banyan trees, the stately pipal and feathery tamarind, but most of all to see the people .

The officer gestured, and the two sailors perched in the banyan branches above the pinnace put up their rifles.

Enobarbus turned to give his orders, and at that moment one of the sailors perched in the branches of the banyan to which the pinnace was moored cried out.

The pinnace was sliding away from the banyan tree, leaving the burning skiff behind.

Yama had come ashore on the side of the banyan that faced toward the far side of the river.

While Yama worked, the fisherman, whose name was Caphis, told him that he had blundered into the sticky web just after dawn, while searching for the eggs of a species of coot which nested in the hearts of banyan thickets.

By the time Yama had climbed into a crotch of the banyan, hidden amongst rustling leaves high above the spit, the skiff was edging through the slick of feeder roots that ringed the banyan.

They landed at the edge of a solitary grandfather banyan half a league downstream.

The kernels of banyan fruit, which set all through the year, could be ground into flour.

The first men were made of wood, carved from a banyan tree so huge that it was a world in itself, standing in the universe of water and light.

It rained for forty days and forty nights, and the waters rose through the roots of the banyan and rose through the branches until only the youngest leaves showed above the flood, and at last even these were submerged.

The fisherfolk believed that the world was packed with spirits which controlled everything from the weather to the flowering of the least of the epiphytic plants of the banyan shoals.

By the time Yama had waded to shore, the coracle was already far off, a black speck on the shining plane of the river, making a long, curved path toward a raft of banyan islands far from shore.

To tell it concisely, Yama had to miss out the fear and tension he had felt during every moment of his adventures, the long hours of discomfort when he had tried to sleep in wet clothes on the ftw of the banyan, his growing hunger and thirst while wandering the hot shaly land of the Silent Quarter of the City of the Dead.

It looked over a beautiful lawn, in the centre of which was a spreading banyan tree.