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Sri Lanka,ශ්රී ලංකා,Ceylon,Svastika,Hakenkreuz,Good Luck Symbol

Svastikas are frequently encountered in Sri Lanka where these are a traditional symbol of luck and positive powers. On commercial advertizing boards,graves,private houses,entry gates,and decorations of religious Temples. Even during WorldWar II when the British fought against the Nazi Regime in Europe,the svastikas in their Ceylon colony were completly dissociated from the same cross used by the german ennemies.About Svastika: The swastika (Sanskrit: स्वस्तिक) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient India as well as Classical Antiquity. It remains widely used in Indian Religions, specifically in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.Following a brief surge of popularity in Western culture, the swastika was adopted as a symbol of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (the Nazi Party) in 1920. After Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 the Swastika became a commonly used symbol of Nazi Germany; in 1935 the Nazi Party Flag, which incorporated a Swastika, was made the sole State Flag of Germany. As a result in the western world the Swastika has been strongly associated with Nazism and related ideologies such as Fascism and White Supremacism since the 1930s. Its use is now largely stigmatized in the west; it has notably been outlawed in Germany if used as a symbol …