From that moment forward it is not the Englishman, it is the black banian, that is the master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)] Reference

I found him in his night-cap and banian, which is his ordinary dress in that retired part of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published] Reference

O best of Brahmanas, I burn this banian in thy sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

Ganassi held back the slender trunk-roots of the banian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

Yamuna, known as Plakshavatarana (descent of the banian tree).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1] Reference

It is there that that mighty tree called the Eternal banian stands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

Sphinx in the face and dreamed with the Brahmin under his own banian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference

Freed from the noose, the cat ran with speed and got upon the banian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

On that plot stood a large and beautiful banian with a spherical top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Was Ganassi a man, or was he only a voice, the heart of this banian-tree?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

So saying, Takshaka, then and there, bit a lord of the forest (a banian tree).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

Sraddhas are performed there under the banian called the Akshaya or inexhaustible banian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

Night came on, and the strange company lay down together under the shelter of the banian and slept.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference

The kine also, having been brought together, were staying under the shade of that same banian tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

Carrying the burthen with difficulty, he reached that same banian (under which he had met the crane).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

In a banian seed is contained the capacity to produce leaves and flowers and fruits and roots and bark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

The mouse beheld at the same time another foe living in the trees, then sitting on the branch of the banian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

In this connection is cited the old story of the discourse between a cat and a mouse at the foot of a banian. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Batakashaya is explained by the commentator as substance that is named by pounding the hanging roots of the banian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

And some time after I behold in that expanse of accumulated waters a vast and wide-extending banian tree, O lord of earth!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

While falling down, that dear son of Parnasa shone resplendent like a tall banian with spreading boughs broken by the wind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

Kovidara and Arimeda and Plaksha and banian and peepul, and also with diverse mountain-summits and diverse kinds of metals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

They went a little further, and dismounted at a pleasant cool bank, shaded by a large banian tree, and close to the Ganges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindoo Tales Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes] Reference

Rubbed with the astringent powder of the hanging roots of the banian and anointed with the oil of Priyangu, one should eat the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference

I had not gazed upon the blue diamonds since the day when I had restored the two stones shown to the banian merchant in Lahore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [How I Found Livingstone] Reference

But though adorned with every embellishment, that inspired her only with awe, like a beautified banian in the midst of a cemetery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

Greatest potentiality in life is often latent; the gigantic banian tree grows out of a thing which is smaller than the mustard seed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference

Herietiera, etc. The supports are only thrown out towards the base of the principal branches, not as in the banian at indefinite distances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

There was a hut beside a tank, a huge banian near it, and nothing more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hungry Stones and Other Stories] Reference

A Malay looked up sleepily, and pointed toward the wide-spreading banian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines] Reference

The banian escapes, in the night of his complexion and situation, the inquiry that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)] Reference

"There is a boa in the roots of the banian, Aboo," I said, looking longingly toward its deep shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines] Reference