suastica

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See also: suástica

English

Noun

suastica (plural suasticas)

  1. Obsolete form of swastika.
    • 1882, The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, page 535:
      They are of various sizes and materials: terra cotta, burnt hard, preponderates; they are engraved with Aryan symbols, the suastica, central suns, stars, []
    • 1883, The Baptist Quarterly Review, volume 5, page 507:
      The Suastica, or Indian cross, usually interpreted as typical of the early Sanskrit fire god Agni []
    • 1892, The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, volume 14, page 177:
      [] the conventional figures, such as the scroll, spiral, the volute meander, fret, rope pattern, suastica, chevron, zigzag, ivy leaf, tree foil, cone, sacred tree or grove, and Buddhist trisula, []