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The Buddhists appear to hold the svastika in the same light as the Jains. In the Nasik Inscription (no. 10) of Ushavadata, the symbol is placed immediately after the word ‘Siddham’, a juxtaposition which corroborates the Jain interpretation. The svastika appears at the beginning or end or at both ends of an inscription and it might mean the Brāhmaṇical ‘Svasti’ or Jain ‘Siddham’. The Buddhist square Pali Inscriptions from Kuda, Karle, Sailawadi, Junar, etc., among the Inscriptions from the Cave Temples of Western India contain svastika at the beginning and end (卐 卐 卐 [Figure:], *Ind. Ant.*, Vol. xv, p. 96).