| Ordinarily he would be pinned to a banyan tree with an assagai before he'd read sports pages. |
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| The branches of the banyan tree had apparently entered deep into a building on Patullos Road and posed a threat to the stability of the building. |
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| Under a banyan tree are a cluster of stones streaked with vermillion and considered the dwelling place of the snake god. |
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| Why not some panchayat, a round table under the overseer moon, or a palaver by the banyan tree? |
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| The day includes the ceremonial watering of banyan trees to commemorate the banyan tree under which Buddha sat when he attained enlightenment. |
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| The banyan tree stood above all, its topmost branch trying to reach out to the sky. |
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| The monument is a massive flagpole entwined with the trunk and branches of a symbolic banyan tree forged in steel. |
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| Then it scampered off up the aerial roots of a nearby banyan tree. |
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| Nearby, students had gathered under a huge banyan tree, more than a century old. |
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| To the consciousness of the soul it is the potential where the whole banyan tree is printed on the plane of recollection. |
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| The background of the shield is blue with a gold banyan tree in the centre. |
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| The Mendoubia Park is splendidly laid out, dominated by a giant banyan tree, and graced with a multitude of venerable dragon trees. |
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| The first banyan tree in the United States was planted by Thomas Alva Edison in Fort Myers, Florida. |
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| A giant banyan tree and a dragon tree, alleged to be 800 years old, highlight the visit. |
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| He spent the whole of his time in the deepest of meditation, remaining immobile beneath the shade of a banyan tree. |
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| With a strong vine he tied them up to the trunk of an enormous banyan tree. |
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| A porter stops to rest under the shade of a huge banyan tree, its trunk twisting out of the earth and its umbrella-like branches arching over a granite stairway. |
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| The darkness referred to in meditation is like the banyan tree in a seed. |
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| Hodgkine's mural is of a banyan tree spreading its branches across the walls. |
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| At Theosophical Society, sit under the 450-year-old banyan tree under which Annie Besant discoursed. |
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| Meanwhile, the zamindar — feudal lord — of a village twenty miles upstream from the dam called the police about a white Toyota Corolla that had been abandoned by the canal, in the shade of a banyan tree. |
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| It compares Mrs Nakkunanandan, a former schoolteacher, to a banyan tree, a Hindu emblem of eternal life. But the room holds no books, magazines or furniture. |
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| In some Pacific island cultures the banyan tree, of which the Bodhi tree is of the Sacred Fig variety, is the abode of ancestor spirits. |
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| They were taking class under the banyan tree. |
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| The banyan tree was used as a metaphor for the three-part program. |
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| The visiting nomad passed the message on and the mountain farmers congregated anxiously under the village banyan tree to consider and discuss the message. |
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| Other trees can be used as well, such as the banyan tree with its tangle of supplementary roots hanging from its branches, and the breadfruit tree. |
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| I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat. |
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| Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed. |
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| Tomorrow lunchtime, we fly to Bangkok, and thence to Phuket, where a week's stay at the Banyan Tree spa resort awaits us. |
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| The resort will have a Banyan Tree spa and an activity island, and guests will get to dig appams with meen moile while taking a houseboat ride on the backwaters of Alappuzha. |
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