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(8) ‘In the inscriptions from the cave temples of Western India, Bombay, 1881, are given a quantity of clearly Buddhist Square Pāli Inscriptions from Kuḍā, Kārle, Śailawāḍi, Junnar, etc. Many of these contain Svastikas at the beginning and end. Kuḍā no. 27 has at the end 卍; but at the end of 29 is 卐 which occurs again at the beginning and end of Kārle inscriptions, and beginning and end of Junnar 30, at the beginning of Junnar 5, 20, 28, 32 and 34, and at the end of Junnar 32; while 卍 occurs at the beginning of Kuḍā 30 and of Junnar 6 and 27, and the end of 33. The form ᖲ is found at the end of the Śailāwāḍi inscription, and 卐 at the end of Kārle 2. Thus cave temple disproves the theory that the Christian Svastikas point to the left or westwards, whereas the Indian including Buddhist and Jain Svastikas, point to the right or eastwards.’ (*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. xv, p. 96.)