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Free conjectures have thus been made by modern writers on its origin from the *āmalaka*, fruit or tree, or from lotus. A writer has referred to the matter in the *Calcutta Oriental Journal* (1934, Vol. 1, pp. 189–195) and accepts the lotus-theory because of its popularity as a Buddhist and Hindu symbol, and also because it fits in well as a part of the śikhara.