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According to some (*see* above M. Burnouf, Mr. Tylor, Mr. Walhouse, *Ind. Ant.*, Vol. vii, p. 177) the svastika symbol ([Figure:] [Figure:]) is intended to denote the ‘invention of the fire-drill, and preserve the sacred remembrance of the discovery of fire (at the neolithic age) by rotating peg in dry wood. The symbol represents the two pieces of wood laid crosswise, one upon another, before the sacrificial altar, in order to produce the holy fire. The ends of the cross were fixed down by arms, and at the point where the two pieces are joined there was a small hole in which a wooden peg or lance was rotated by a chord of cow-hair and hemp till the sacred spark was produced.’