What does the swastika?
Monday, September 28, 2009
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swastika The swastika or (in Sanskrit suastika ) is a cross whose arms are bent at right angles either clockwise or 卐, left 卍. The term comes from the Sanskrit swastika, meaning "good luck" (literally "holy form"). 
Geometrically, its 20 sides make it an irregular irregular icosagon. is a monogram created by the combination of the letters her Asti (in Sanskrit their 'very', Astika 'auspicious') ashoka character (prior to the Devanagari letters, which are the for several centuries used in writing Sanskrit). According to some authors this shows that the symbol was not created in this era, but approximately in the V century BC. Although Vaishnavas (Vishnuites) say that the swastika is "eternally drawn in one of the four hands of God." Another likely meaning is that each "head" or "arm" may represent one of the four elements and joining them in full. This symbol has been appearing repeatedly in the iconography, art and design produced throughout the history of mankind has shown very different concepts. Among these are the lucky, the Brahman, the Hindu concept of samsara (Reincarnation) or Surya (Sun god), to cite only the most representative. In principle, the swastika was used as a symbol among the Hindus. It is first mentioned in the Vedas (Hindu scriptures), but its use is transferred to other religions of India, like Buddhism and Jainism. A modern Western belief, probably apocryphal, holds that only the swastika with arms bent to the right is a mark of good luck, while the swastika arms bent to the left is an ominous portent. Even some Westerners have named arbitrarily sauwastika, which from the point of view of Sanskrit etymology is an eyesore. No evidence of this distinction in the history of Hinduism from which comes the symbol, however the current version is the right-handed swastika, Hindus in India and Nepal are using the symbol on the two variants. Buddhists usually use the left-handed form. In the early twentieth century Nazism adopted the swastika as the emblem and "following the Second World War in the West is mostly identified only as a symbol of the Third Reich, virtually unknown pre-Nazi use. 
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