banian

On banian or fish days, our men preferred eating these roots with oil and vinegar to the best stock-fish.

I had not gazed upon the blue diamonds since the day when I had restored the two stones shown to the banian merchant in Lahore.

To this banian all the Company's servants are made subject; they are bound to obey all his orders, and those of his committee.

Outside he saw his old father a little way off, standing under a banian tree, barefooted and wrapped in a piece of namabali.