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- noun See
swastika .
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“Swastika” is an Anglicization of the Sanskrit word svastika, which means well-being or good luck.
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Once the fundamental misconception was removed, the Rabbinate, not surprisingly, also affirmed the following declaration on the sensitive issue of the svastika, the sacred symbol for the Hindus.
Savitri Era Religion has nothing to do with the Hindu or any other Religion Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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The importance of this affirmation may be understood from the fact that a Hindu temple in Detroit was vandalised a few years ago by the Jewish community offended by a huge svastika rangoli at the entrance of the temple.
Savitri Era Religion has nothing to do with the Hindu or any other Religion Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Ai bëhet një përzierje e regjimit të vjetër nazist, me flamuj tmerrshëm leje "hammers dyfishtë", kujton e svastika, dhe neo-nazist lëvizje, me krerët e saj rruhet dhe çizmet e larta me gozhdë.
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These had been arranged on the bottom and attached in the form of a _svastika_.
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Rajputana and Mesopotamia -- that ever elude his anguished approaches; and with Ixion, the meanest and basest of cheats, and most demoniac of murderers, whose posthumous punishment was in being stretched, and broken, and bound, in the figure of the svastika, on a wheel which, self-moved -- like the wheels of the vision of Ezekiel -- whirls forevermore round and round the abyss of the nether world.
Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers Louis Raemaekers 1912
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The articles following are by Murray-Aynsley (Asiatic Symbolism), on svastika, trees, serpents, evil eye, etc.
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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That at the same time when the previously non-perceived svastika-ornament is perceived the gold also is recognised, is due to the fact of the gold persisting as the substrate of the ornament, and hence such recognition of the causal substance does not disprove the reality of the effect.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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Nor, in the second place, is the _gold coin_ originative of the svastika-ornament; for we do not perceive the coin in the svastika, as we do perceive the threads in the cloth.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
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Nor, in the third place, is the effect originated by the gold in so far as being the substrate of the coin; for the gold in so far as forming the substrate of the coin is not perceived in the svastika.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881
qroqqa commented on the word svastika
Polite way of referring to the ancient Indian symbol, with the linguistic benefit that <v> is a more standard way of transcribing the Sanskrit sound.
March 5, 2009
madmouth commented on the word svastika
in SBC, this refers (misogynistically?) to one's sister-in-law
January 27, 2014