A large old banyan tree with a dense network of pale, thick aerial roots descending from wide spreading branches to a red-earth ground. Green leaves cling to the trunk-like roots, and a strand of white beaded garland is strung between roots at the right. Thin black irrigation hoses run along the reddish soil and small stone-edged paving, with no people visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A large old banyan tree with a dense network of pale, thick aerial roots descending from wide spreading branches to a red-earth ground. Green leaves cling to the trunk-like roots, and a strand of white beaded garland is strung between roots at the right. Thin black irrigation hoses run along the reddish soil and small stone-edged paving, with no people visible.

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