A photograph of a large old banyan tree with thick grey trunks and widely spreading horizontal limbs covered in green leaves. Dense aerial roots hang down from the branches and twist together into the main trunk, forming a tangled mass of pillars. Patches of pale sky show through the canopy. No people, figures, deity forms or ritual objects are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of a large old banyan tree with thick grey trunks and widely spreading horizontal limbs covered in green leaves. Dense aerial roots hang down from the branches and twist together into the main trunk, forming a tangled mass of pillars. Patches of pale sky show through the canopy. No people, figures, deity forms or ritual objects are visible.

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