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In Hinduism, the leaf of the banyan tree is said to be the resting place for the god Krishna. In the Bhagavat Gita, Krishna said, "There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down, and the Vedic hymns are its leaves. One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas."
A banyan tree which local tradition says is an offshoot of the tree Krishna preached under stands on a raised plinth at Jyotisar. [1] [2] There is also an old Shiva temple here where the Kauravas and Pandavas had worshipped Shiva. Abhimanyupur and Harsh Ka Tila, archaeological finds are nearby.
Ficus benghalensis, or Ficus indica commonly known as the banyan, banyan fig and Indian banyan, [2] is a tree native to the Indian Subcontinent.Specimens in India are among the largest trees in the world by canopy coverage.
Chosath Yogini temple: a 1000 year old Banyan tree, located in Maharajpur, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh (India), spread in 50000 square feet, the biggest banyan tree of central India; A huge banyan tree spread across 2.5 acres of land inside the Pirbaba's Taroda sacred grove located in Amravati district, Maharashtra. The tree is considered sacred.
Ficus religiosa or sacred fig is a species of fig native to the Indian subcontinent [2] and Indochina [3] that belongs to Moraceae, the fig or mulberry family.It is also known as the bodhi tree, [4] peepul tree, [2] peepal tree, pipala tree or ashvattha tree (in India and Nepal). [5]
The banyan tree is the oldest living one on Maui but is not a species indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands. When a deadly wildfire tore through Lahaina on Maui last August, the wall of flames ...
A large banyan tree in the heart of Old Lahaina that was badly scorched by the fires that ransacked Maui appears to have emerged from the flames still standing.
Kalpataru, the divine tree of life being guarded by mythical creatures at the 8th century Pawon temple, a Buddhist temple in Java, Indonesia. Kalpavriksha [note 1] (Sanskrit: कल्पवृक्ष, lit. 'age tree', Kalpavṛkṣa) is a wish-fulfilling divine tree in religions like Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.