CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -After approaching but declining a mango tree, the Buddha chooses the fig tree (Ficus religiosa ). The fig tree became known as the bodhi tree because the Buddha reached enlightenment (bodhi) after meditating beneath one such tree for 49 days.

Detailed explanation-2: -Native to the Indian subcontinent, the peepal belongs to Moraceae, the fig or mulberry family and is also known as the bodhi tree, pippala tree, or ashwattha tree (in India and Nepal).

Detailed explanation-3: -Bodh Gaya contains one of the holiest of Buddhist sites: the location where, under the sacred pipal, or Bo tree, Gautama Buddha (Prince Siddhartha) attained enlightenment and became the Buddha.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Bodhi Tree ("tree of awakening"), also called the Mahabodhi Tree, Bo Tree, is a large sacred fig tree (Ficus religiosa) located in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India. Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher who became known as the Buddha, is said to have attained enlightenment or buddhahood circa 500 BCE under this tree.

Detailed explanation-5: -The tree in reality is Pipal (Asvattha, Ficus religiosa), the Indian Fig. The term Bodhirukkha is explained by Buddhaghoṣa as the one under which the Buddha attained Bodhi. Bodhi tree at the Mahābodhi Temple is also known as the Sri Mahā Bodhi.