"Banian tree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other; each man with his palm upon the shoulder next him; and he with the longest nose took the lead of the file. Journeying on in this manner, they came to a valley, in which reigned a king called Tammaro. Now, in a certain inclosure toward the head of the valley, there stood an immense wild banian tree; all over moss, and many centuries old, and forming quite a wood in itself: its thousand boughs striking into the earth, and fixing there as many gigantic trunks. With Tammaro, it had long been a question, which of those many trunks was the ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville
... near to give them drink, and they could think of nothing better than to lie down and die. But they first resolved to pray to the god Shiva, "Please, please, God Shiva," prayed the two children, "get us out of this terrible trouble." 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. When evening came, father eagle and mother eagle came ...
— Deccan Nursery Tales - or, Fairy Tales from the South • Charles Augustus Kincaid |
