At the gateway beneath the great banyan John the Baptist squatted with two friends, making music with a flute and two drums.

We chose for our meeting-place the great banyan on the top of Malabar Hill, where I passed the happiest moments I have ever known.

The great banyan trees whose branches came down and took root in the earth, making a wonderful round leafy tent, grew on every side.

'I never saw anything like the pigeons in the great banyan tree close by.

Farther on, great banyans, of the kind whose seeds do not change into fruits, completed the outline of this vast landscape.