Editing World tree (section)

===Hinduism and Indian religions===
Remnants are also evident in the [[Kalpavriksha]] ("wish-fulfilling tree") and the [[Ashvattha]] tree of the [[Indian religions]]. The ''Ashvattha'' tree ('keeper of horses') is described as a [[sacred fig]] and corresponds to "the most typical representation of the world
tree in India", upon whose branches the celestial bodies rest.<ref name=Lintrop2001/><ref name=Norelius2016/> Likewise, the Kalpavriksha is also equated with a fig tree and said to possess wish-granting abilities.<ref name="The Tree of Life in Indo-European a"/>

Indologist [[David Dean Shulman]] provided the description of a similar imagery that appears in [[South India]]n [[Dravidian architecture|temples]]: the ''[[Sthala Vriksha|sthalavṛkṣa]]'' tree. The tree is depicted alongside a water source (river, temple tank, sea). The tree may also appear rooted on Earth or reaching the realm of [[Patala]] (a netherworld where the [[Nāga]] dwell), or in an inverted position, rooted in the Heavens. Like other accounts, this tree may also function as an ''axis mundi''.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Shulman|first1=David|title=Murukan, the mango and Ekāmbareśvara-Śiva: Fragments of a Tamil creation myth?|journal=Indo-Iranian Journal|date=1 January 1979|volume=21|issue=1|pages=27–40|doi=<!-- gone -->|jstor=24653474|s2cid=189767945}}</ref>