plant

Ashvattha

Nature

The named sacred fig of Vedic and later Hindu speech (Ficus religiosa). Not bodhi as the awakening-tree label alone, and not banyan as Ficus benghalensis.

Also known as Aśvattha · Sacred fig

Vedic tradition

sources

  • The Rigveda · Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation)

    Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton, The Rigveda: The Earliest Religious Poetry of India.