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(7) ‘The capacity of the well, well accounts for the time taken in its construction. There are four entrances leading into the well, and they are so constructed as to give it the shape of the svastika symbol 卐. (This should be compared with the village named Svastika.) From each of the entrances, a flight of steps leads to the interior of the well.’—(*Ep. Ind.*, Vol. xi, p. 155, para. 2, note 1.)