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Definition of Swastikas
1. swastika [n] - See also: swastika
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swastikas
Literary usage of Swastikas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bhilsa Topes, Or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India: Comprising a by Alexander Cunningham (1854)
"... and as these have ever been the prevailing characteristics of mankind in the
East, the Atheistical principles of the swastikas were received by the bulk ..."
2. The Bhilsa Topes, Or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India: Comprising a by Alexander Cunningham (1854)
"The swastikas received their name from their * The migration of souls was the
fundamental belief of all classes, both Buddhist and Brahmanical. ..."
3. The Potters' Quarter: The Pottery by Agnes Newhall Stillwell, J. L. Benson (1984)
"I:1, right) has on the shoulder a snake like that of 220 with swastikas in the
loops. ... Row of dots along either side of body; swastikas in loops. ..."
4. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1900)
"356): "The earliest dated swastikas, hitherto found in Egypt, occur on the foreign
Cyprian and Carian [?] pottery fragments of the time of the twelfth ..."
5. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"Many of the swastikas found at Hissarlik (Troy) are now acknowledged to be no
true swastikas. They are not found before the third city. ..."
6. Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans: the Results of Researches and by Heinrich Schliemann (1880)
"1982 we again see three swastikas. One of the most common patterns is that of No.
... 1988, with two swastikas, three curved lines and three rows of dots, ..."
7. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"In July 1999, unknown vandals sprayed swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on the
Jewish community headquarters in Bielsko-Biala. According to the mayor of ..."
8. Ilios: The City and Country of the Trojans: the Results of Researches and by Heinrich Schliemann (1881)
"1982 we again see three swastikas. One of the most common patterns is that of No.
... 1988, with two swastikas, three curved lines and three rows of dots, ..."
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