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{{Infobox tree
| name = Kabirvad
| image =
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| species = [[Banyan]]
| binomial = ''[[Ficus benghalensis]]''
| location = Kabirvad river island, [[Bharuch district]], [[Gujarat]], India
| coordinates = {{coord|type:landmark_region:IN|display=inline,title}}
| seeded =
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| custodian =Forest Department, [[Government of Gujarat]]
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[[File:Kabirvad hodi ghat.JPG|thumb|Hodi Ghat, Kabirvad]]

'''Kabirvad''' is a [[banyan tree]] located on a small river island in [[Narmada river]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tale of Jeeva and Datta (Tatva) {{!}} Kabir|url=https://kabirsahib.jagatgururampalji.org/index/tale-of-jeeva-and-datta-tatva/|access-date=2020-10-25|website=kabirsahib.jagatgururampalji.org}}</ref> It is [[Bharuch district]], [[Gujarat]], India. The tree and place is associated with 15th century mystic-poet [[Kabir]]. There is a temple dedicated to Kabir. It is believed that the banyan tree was sprouted from Datoon (twig used as a toothbrush). The place is religious site as well as popular tourist spot.<ref name=OL>{{cite magazine|title=The Kabir Tree |url=http://www.outreachecology.com/go/deliver/OutlookTraveller_KabirsBanyan.pdf |website=Outlook Traveller |date=January 2010 |last=Bar-Ness |first=Yoav Deniel |pages=118–121 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161214055257/http://www.outreachecology.com/go/deliver/OutlookTraveller_KabirsBanyan.pdf |archivedate=2016-12-14 }}</ref><ref name="GT">{{cite web | title=Kabirvad | website=Gujarat Tourism | url=http://www.gujarattourism.com/destination/details/10/180 | accessdate=14 December 2016}}</ref><ref name="Network 2015">{{cite web | last=Network | first=Divyabhaskar | title=Amazing: नर्मदा नदी के टापू पर 3 किमी तक फैला है यह बरगद का पेड़ | website=dainikbhaskar | date=6 April 2015 | url=http://www.bhaskar.com/news/GUJ-SUR-kabirvad-shuklatirth-in-bharuch-at-gujarat-4954000-PHO.html | language=hi | accessdate=14 December 2016}}</ref><ref name="The Indian Express 2014">{{cite web | title=Crocodile fear hits footfall in Bharuch tourist spot | website=The Indian Express | date=22 June 2014 | url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/crocodile-fear-hits-footfall-in-bharuch-tourist-spot/ | accessdate=14 December 2016}}</ref>

== Expansion ==
[[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 7000 men. It was later described by James Forbes (1749–1819) in his ''Oriental Memoirs'' (1813–1815) as nearly {{convert|2000|ft|abbr=on|order=flip}} in circumference with over 3000 trunks.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Fig}}</ref> Currently the area of its canopy is {{convert|17520|sqm|acre|abbr=on}} with a perimeter of {{convert|641|m|abbr=on}}.<ref name="Bar-Ness">{{cite web | last = Bar-Ness | first = YD | title = The World's Largest Trees? Cataloguing India's Giant Banyans | url = https://www.outreachecology.com/portfolio/The%20Worlds%20Largest%20Trees%20Cataloguing%20Indias%20Giant%20Banyans-by%20YD%20Bar-Ness-Outreach%20Ecology%20Report-Jun10.pdf | page = 6 | date = June 2010 | publisher = Outreach Ecology | accessdate = 3 January 2018 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20180104192327/https://www.outreachecology.com/portfolio/The%20Worlds%20Largest%20Trees%20Cataloguing%20Indias%20Giant%20Banyans-by%20YD%20Bar-Ness-Outreach%20Ecology%20Report-Jun10.pdf | archivedate = 4 January 2018}}</ref>

== Conveyance ==

From [[Bharuch]] to Jhanor via Shuklatirth, there is a place known as Kabirmadhi. From here a boat ride brings people to the river island.<ref name="OL" />

== Legend ==

There were two Brahmin brothers Jeeva and Tatva in the village named Shuklatirth near the Mangleshwar village in Bharuch district, Gujarat. Once, they were inspired to find a True Saint. So, to identify the true Saint, they planted a dried shoot of a banyan tree in their courtyard and thought that the Foot-nectar of whichever Saint would turn the dried shoot green, that would be the true Saint.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lorenzen|first=David N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SO-YmMWpcVEC&q=story+of+tattva+jiva+kabir&pg=PA113|title=Who Invented Hinduism: Essays on Religion in History|date=2006|publisher=Yoda Press|isbn=978-81-902272-6-1|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Not Available|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55140|title=Journal Of The Royal Asiatic Society (1908) Vol.23|date=1909}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Forbes|first=James|url=http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46881|title=Oriental Memoirs Vol.1|date=1834}}</ref> That shoot turned green only by the Foot-nectar of Kabir Sahib Ji.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Lorenzen|first1=Professor Centre of Asian and African Studies David N.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UpRd0ItngtIC&q=Kabir&pg=PA62|title=Kabir Legends and Ananta-Das's Kabir Parachai|last2=Lorenzen|first2=David N.|last3=Ananta-das|last4=Vai??ava|first4=Anantad?sa|date=1991-01-01|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-0461-4|language=en}}</ref> That shoot has developed into Kabirvad today.

==References==
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[[Category:Tourist attractions in Gujarat]]
[[Category:Hindu temples in Gujarat]]
[[Category:Flora of India (region)]]
[[Category:River islands of India]]
[[Category:Narmada River]]

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