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| species = [[Banyan]]
| binomial = ''[[Ficus benghalensis]]''
| location = [[Anantapur]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]]
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{{Coord|14|1|40.80|N|78|19|30.37|E|display=title}}'''Thimmamma Marrimanu''' ([[Telugu language|Telugu]]: తిమ్మమ్మ మర్రిమాను, lit. "Thimmamma's Banyan Tree") is a [[banyan]] tree in [[Anantapur]], located about 25 kilometers from [[Kadiri]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]]. It is probably a specimen of ''[[Ficus benghalensis]]''. In the [[Telugu language]], "{{lang|te|marri}}" denotes "banyan" and "{{lang|te|manu}}" denotes "trunk".<ref name="SudhakarKumari2008">{{cite book |author1=C. Sudhakar |author2=R. Suguna Kumari |title=Women and Forestry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IFomAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=5 June 2012 |year=2008 |publisher=The Associated Publishers |isbn=978-81-8429-081-3}}</ref><ref name="Vemsani2006">{{cite book |author=Lavanya Vemsani |title=Hindu and Jain Mythology of Balarāma: Change and Continuity in an Early Indian Cult |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RXnXAAAAMAAJ |accessdate=5 June 2012 |date=31 October 2006 |publisher=Edwin Mellen Press |isbn=978-0-7734-5723-2}}</ref> Its [[canopy (biology)|canopy]] covers {{convert|19107|sqm|acre|abbr=on}},<ref name="MatthewsMcCarthy1993">{{cite book |last1=Matthews |first1=Peter |last2=Dunkley McCarthy |first2=Michelle |last3=Young |first3=Mark (CON) |title=The Guinness Book of Records 1994 |url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofre00pete |url-access=registration |accessdate=5 June 2012 |date=October 1993 |publisher=Facts on File |isbn=978-0-8160-2645-6}}</ref><ref>Confer {{Cite web |url=http://www.backpacker-backgammon.com/news_banyan_trees.html |title=Banyan Trees |website=Backpacker-backgammon.com |publisher=Backpacker-Backgammon |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120710100822/http://www.backpacker-backgammon.com/news_banyan_trees.html |archivedate=2012-07-10 |accessdate=2012-07-10}}</ref><ref>Confer {{Cite web |url=http://www.anantapur.com/travel/thimmamma.html |title=Thimmamma Marrimanu |website=anantapur.com |publisher= |accessdate=2017-01-04}}</ref> and it was recorded as the largest tree specimen in the world in the ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'' in 1989.<ref name="MatthewsMcCarthy1993"/><ref name="India Today">{{cite book |title=India Today |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2opAQAAIAAJ |accessdate=5 June 2012 |year=1992 |publisher=Living Media India Pvt. Ltd. |page=53}}</ref><ref name="frontline">{{cite web |last=Sayeed |first=Vikhar Ahmed |title=Arboreal Wonder |url=http://www.frontline.in/fl2911/stories/20120615291108300.htm |publisher=[[Frontline (magazine)|Frontline]] |accessdate=5 June 2012}}</ref>

== Legend ==

According to a local myth, the tree is named after Thimmamma, a woman who committed [[sati (practice)|sati]] (suicide by throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband's dead body). The tree is said to have originated from one of the poles used in the funeral pyre.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/science-and-technology/story/19920831-banyan-tree-survives-for-nearly-550-years-in-andhra-pradesh-finds-place-in-guinness-book-766763-2013-01-02 |title=550-year-old banyan tree in Andhra Pradesh enters Guinness Book as largest tree in world |author=M.A. Mannan |date=2013-01-02 |publisher=India Today 31 August 1992 }}</ref>

== Religious significance ==

A small temple dedicated to Thimmamma is beneath the tree. The residents of the region strongly believe that if a childless couple worships Thimmamma they will beget a child in the next year. A large [[Jatra (Bengal)|jatara]] is conducted at Thimmamma on the day of the [[Shivaratri|Shivaratri festival]], when thousands flock to the tree to worship it.<ref name="Various">{{cite book|author=Various|title=''Tourist Guide to Andhra Pradesh''|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E4l78qG3TkAC&pg=PA44|accessdate=5 June 2012|publisher=Sura Books|isbn=978-81-7478-176-5|pages=44 et seq}}</ref>

== Recordation ==

The tree was first noticed and revealed to the world by [[Regret Iyer]] (Sathyanarayana Iyer), a freelance journalist and photographer from [[Bangalore]], [[Karnataka]], [[India]]. Later he made all efforts to have the tree recorded in the ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'' as "World's largest Banyan Tree". His name was included in the ''Book'' in this regard.{{Citation needed|date=January 2017}}

Thimmamma Marrimanu was discussed in the second segment of the BBC series 'The Tree Spirits' (29 Aug 2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csvntf|title = BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, the Tree Spirits, the Tree Spirits: Thimmamma Marrimanu}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Banyan trees in India]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Trees of India]]
[[Category:Individual banyan trees]]
[[Category:Individual trees in India]]
11."SreeVeeraiahNayakunicharitra"(Thimmammamarrimanu kata)was written and published by Dr. S. S. GiridharaprasadRoy,with the assistance by the Pottisreeramulu Telugu University Hyderabad in the year1989,the same story was translated and published by the same author with the title"The story of Thimmammamarrimanu "in the year 2012

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