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(15) ‘I come now to show that the figure called the Svastika symbolizes the idea of circumambulation, derived from the apparent movement of the sun from left to right round the earth. The idea is this, that if a person faces the east at sun-rising and follows its movement southward and westward he will turn with his right hand fixed towards an object supposed to be placed like the earth in relation to the sun, in the centre of a circle.