suastica

See also: suástica

English

Noun

suastica (plural suasticas)

1. Obsolete form of swastika.
   • 1882, The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, page 535:

     They are of various sizes and materials: terra cotta, burnt hard, preponderates; they are engraved with Aryan symbols, the suastica, central suns, stars, […]

   • 1883, The Baptist Quarterly Review, volume 5, page 507:

     The Suastica, or Indian cross, usually interpreted as typical of the early Sanskrit fire god Agni […]

   • 1892, The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, volume 14, page 177:

     […] the conventional figures, such as the scroll, spiral, the volute meander, fret, rope pattern, suastica, chevron, zigzag, ivy leaf, tree foil, cone, sacred tree or grove, and Buddhist trisula, […]