Jainism symbol ans Nazi??
By Aitrita
@Aitrita (145)
Switzerland
June 9, 2010 9:05am CST
Hi mylotters
any ideas why the famous Nazi symbol is so similar to the Jainism one?
5 responses
@speedblitz (215)
• India
9 Jun 10
The Symbol is Called Swastika , Which was Derived from Sanskrit Language .
Not only in Jainism , It's been in use in Many different relegions which were there even before the jainism one .Perhaps , Hinduism was the first relegion to introduce and use that symbol well before the Jains .
Buddhism also uses that symbol .
In Hinduism , it's the symbol of prosperity and good fortune and also purity
Buddhism uses Swastika as a symbol of resignation from worldly pleasures .
In Jainism , it represents their seventh saint and the four arms represents possible places or rebirth (animal,plant,hell or on earth or on spirit world)
The Nazis use is derived from ealy german nationalist movements , for which swastika represented Aryan race which was considered by them as a superior nordic race originated in Northern Europe .
Hope this Helps !!
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
9 Jun 10
The Aryan race was supposed to have originated either in India or in the Fertile Crescent (Persia). The definition is based mainly on language and linguistic families and, in the end, it is difficult to say whether languages originating in what is now India or languages originating in the Fertile Crescent, where the supposed 'Aryan' race lived, were the older. It is certain, however, that many modern Indian languages (Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu and others), Persian/Iranian and most European and Slavonic languages have a common ancestor which must have existed as a real language some 15-20,000 years ago.
There are only three modern languages in Europe which do not seem to have their origins in this ancestor (those are Finnish and Hungarian, which seem to have another common ancestor) and Basque, which has not been reliably proved to be related to any other known language (existing or defunct).
@speedblitz (215)
• India
10 Jun 10
Yeah !! Aryan race was supposedly or Indo-Persian origin.
The word Aryan has it's existence from the very ancient and highly spoken language Sanskrit , which was the mother of many languages that appeared later like Hindi , Urdu and others .
@DarthMundis (71)
• United States
29 Jun 10
The swastica was not invented by the Nazis. It is a pagan symbol that has been used in many cultures and has had numerous meanings.
@kingkrunal (150)
• India
9 Jun 10
Wow.. that was a kind of info. Really good. Loved to know about this facts. But i guess Swastika was there before Nazis...
