{"id":29914,"date":"2025-02-05T02:43:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T21:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29914"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:22:36","slug":"state-emblem-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/state-emblem-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"State Emblem of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>State Emblem of India Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Union Home Ministry recently asked State governments to prevent the misuse and improper depiction of the State Emblem of India, emphasising that the Lion Capital logo is incomplete without the motto\u2014Satyamev Jayate\u2014in Devanagari script.<\/p>\n<h2>About State Emblem of India<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>original, there are four lions<\/strong>, mounted <strong>back to back,on a circular abacus<\/strong>, which itself r<strong>ests on a bell-shaped lotus.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>frieze of the abacus has sculptures <\/strong>in high relief of an <strong>elephant, <\/strong>a galloping <strong>horse<\/strong>, a b<strong>ull, and a lion separated <\/strong>by intervening <strong>Dharma Chakras.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In the State emblem, adopted<\/strong> by the Government of India <strong>on 26 January 1950, only three lions are visible,<\/strong> the fourth being hidden from view.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>wheel appears<\/strong> in relief <strong>in the centre of the abacus with a bull on the right and a horse on the left<\/strong> and the<strong> outlines of other wheels on the extreme right and left.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>bell-shaped lotus has been omitted.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Below <\/strong>the representation of the Lion Capital, the <strong>words Satyameva Jayate are written in Devnagari Script, <\/strong>which is also the <strong>National Motto of India<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The words are a <strong>quote from the Mundaka Upanishad,<\/strong> the last and most philosophical of the four Vedas, and is translated as \u2018Truth alone triumphs\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The u<strong>se of the State Emblem <\/strong>of India is<strong> restricted to the authorities<\/strong>\/purposes <strong>specified in the State Emblem of India (Prohibition of Improper Use) Act, 2005, and the State Emblem of India (Regulation of Use) Rules, 2007.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>State Emblem of India FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What do the 4 lions in India emblem represent?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The four lions symbolize power, courage, confidence and faith.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. How many animals are there in the national emblem of India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The National Emblem of India features four animals\u2014a lion, an elephant, a horse, and a bull\u2014engraved on the base of the Lion Capital of Ashoka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the national motto of India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The national motto of India is &#8220;Satyameva Jayate&#8221;, which means &#8220;Truth Alone Triumphs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/home-ministry-asks-state-governments-to-prevent-misuse-of-state-emblem-of-india\/article69181321.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Emblem of India is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}