A photograph of the inside of a large banyan tree trunk, where thick grey-brown aerial roots and buttress roots form a hollow enclosure lit by a shaft of sunlight. The ground is bare earth scattered with small petals or offering fragments, including a yellow and a red flower bit. No people are visible. Hanging aerial roots curve down on the left, and the bark shows vertical ridges. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of the inside of a large banyan tree trunk, where thick grey-brown aerial roots and buttress roots form a hollow enclosure lit by a shaft of sunlight. The ground is bare earth scattered with small petals or offering fragments, including a yellow and a red flower bit. No people are visible. Hanging aerial roots curve down on the left, and the bark shows vertical ridges.

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