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To: Jyotishi

My first edition of Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” has a Hindu swastika on the end-paper (fly leaf?) at the front of the book.


21 posted on 06/23/2015 12:02:17 PM PDT by WayneS (Don't blow smoke up my ass and tell me it's raining...)
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To: WayneS

My father had a copy of that book, possibly a first edition, that was one of my favorites when I was a boy. I remember asking him about the swastika when I was around 8 or 9, and him explaining about the Hindu use of the symbol long before Nazis ever existed.

I wish I could have got hold of my dad’s library after he died. That book and many others probably went in the estate sale.


27 posted on 06/23/2015 2:40:10 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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