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According to
Hindu scriptures, Aśvattha, (Sanskrit: अश्वत्थ) or
Sacred fig (Ficus religiosa), is a
sacred tree for the
Hindus and has been extensively...
- also
known as the
bodhi tree,
peepul tree,
peepal tree,
pipala tree or
ashvattha tree (in
India and Nepal). The
sacred fig is
considered to have a religious...
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Buddhism and Jainism),
which are the vata (Ficus benghalensis, banyan),
ashvattha (ficus religiosa, Peepal) and
Nimba (azadirachta indica, neem). Panchavati...
- as
Yggdrasil in
Norse mythology, Jian Mu in
Chinese mythology or the
Ashvattha fig in
Hindu mythology.
These trees impeded the
joining of the Overworld...
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Buddhism and Jainism, such
trees are the vata (ficus benghalensis, banyan),
ashvattha (ficus religiosa, peepal),
bilva (aegle marmelos,
Bengal quince), amalaki...
- 建木; pinyin: jiànmù) in
Chinese mythology, and in
Hindu mythology the
Ashvattha (a
Ficus religiosa).
Scholarship states that many
Eurasian mythologies...
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while meditating for 49 days
under a
sacred fig. The same
species was
Ashvattha, the "world tree" of Hinduism. The
Plaksa Pra-sravana was said to be a...
- Tree, a Tree-of-Life, axis mundi, or
Sacred Tree. Some
examples are the
Ashvattha in
Hindu mythology,
Yggdrasil in
Norse mythology, and égig érő fa in Hungarian...
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Parashurama that fell on the
ground here gave
birth to a
Peepal tree (
Ashvattha vruksha).
Mother Bhageerathi (river Ganga) is said to have come here to...
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atman (Self) in
every being. The
chapter uses the
metaphor of the
Ashvattha (banyan) tree to
illustrate the
material world's entanglements, emphasizes...
