>> Well, the swastika was originally a Sanskrit symbol of well-being! >> > >> > Adrian >> > I had thought I had been told that it was (yet another) version of a > Christian Cross, much used in Orthodoxy, but I may be wrong. Sanskrit > is > certainly older than that > > Ian Cardinal
According to my dictionary, in Sanskrit it's 'svastika' from 'svasti' well-being, from 'su' good and 'asti' - 'as' means to be (I don't know if it's related to English 'am' and 'are'). I remember being surprised as a child that it occurs frequently on the covers of Kipling's books. IIRC the Germans call it a 'Hackenkreuz'. Sean
