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According to another school of thought as represented by Rev. S. Beal (*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. IX, p. 67 ff.), Mr. Sewel (*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. X, p. 202) and Mr. Murray-Ansley (*Ind. Ant.*, Vol. XV, p. 93 ff.) the svastika figure ‘symbolizes the idea of circumambulation, derived from the apparent movement of the sun from left to right round the earth.’ The idea appears to be 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.