Kabirvad
Sign in to saveKabirvad is a banyan tree located on a small river island in the Narmada River, in Bharuch district, Gujarat, India. The tree and place is associated with 15th-century mystic-poet Kabir, and the location includes a temple dedicated to him. The place is a religious site as well as a popular tourist spot.
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- Instance of
- remarkable tree
- Named after
- Kabir
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bharuch district
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- individual of taxon
- Ficus subg. Urostigma
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Kabirvad is a banyan tree located on a small river island in the Narmada River, in Bharuch district, Gujarat, India. The tree and place is associated with 15th-century mystic-poet Kabir, and the location includes a temple dedicated to him. The place is a religious site as well as a popular tourist spot.
==Description== Nearchus, an admiral of Alexander the Great, described a large specimen on the banks of the Narmada River, possibly Kabirvad. The tree's canopy was so extensive, it sheltered 7,000 men. It was later described by James Forbes (1749–1819) in his Oriental Memoirs (1813–1815) as nearly in circumference, with over 3,000 trunks. Currently, the area of its canopy is , with a perimeter of .
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