अश्वत्थ [ aśvattha ] [ aśvattha ] m. ( [ ttha ] = [ stha ] " under which horses stand " ) the holy fig tree , Ficus Religiosa Lit. AV. Lit. ŚBr.

  a vessel made of its wood Lit. RV. i , 135 , 8 ; x , 97 , 5

  the upper (or male) [ araṇi ] made of its wood Lit. AV. vi , 11 , 1 Lit. ŚBr. xi Lit. KātyŚr.

  the plant Thespesia Populneoides Lit. L.

  N. of a Nakshatra (also called Śroṇā) Lit. Pāṇ. 4-2 , 5 and 22

  a N. of the sun Lit. MBh. iii , 151

  N. of a people Lit. VarBṛS.

  [ aśvatthā ] f. day of full moon in the month Āśvina (in which month the fruit of the Ficus Religiosa generally becomes ripe)

  [ aśvatthī ] f. the small Pippala tree Lit. L.

  [ aśvattha ] m. f. n. " relating to the Nakshatra Aśvattha " , ( with [ muhūrta ] ) the moment in which the moon enters that Nakshatra Lit. Pāṇ. 4-2 , 5 Sch.