244 Journal of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XVII, 
was noticed by Thomas Mr and I should regard them as 
proto-Brahmi 6’s. The ee’ svastika was probably the 
earliest form of the Wasi: a "alimplifica ion of the spiral 
Asoka’s inscriptions. The mediaeval Indian symbol, which 
replaces the svastika of the earlier records and is itself re- 
placed later by the syllabic omkara, should be ee oan, in the 
same way. The symbol is often identical in shape the 
Egyptian u-spiral which, to one initiated in sacred eaiauolisn, 
could well recall the whole group a, wu and m. 
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