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National Flag

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India's National Flag is a horizontal tricolour of deep saffron (Kesaria), (representing strength and courage of the country) at the top, white (peace & truth) in the middle and dark green (fertility, growth and auspiciousness of the land) at the bottom in equal proportion. The ratio of width of the flag to its length is two to three. In the centre of the white band is a navy-blue wheel which represents the chakra. Its design is that of the wheel which appears on the abacus of the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka. Its diameter approximates to the width of the white band and it has 24 spokes. This Dharma Chakra depicted the "wheel of the law" in the Sarnath Lion Capital made by the 3rd-century BC Mauryan Emperor Ashoka. The chakra intends to show that there is life in movement and death in stagnation.The design of the National Flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India on 22 July 1947 . Flag Code On 26th January 2002, the Indian flag code was m...
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National Emblem

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The state emblem is an adaptation from the  Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka . In the original, there are  four lions , standing back to back, mounted on an abacus with a frieze carrying sculptures in high relief of an  elephant , a galloping  horse , a bull and a lion separated by intervening wheels over a  bell-shaped lotus . Carved out of a single block of polished sandstone, the Capital is crowned by the Wheel of the Law  (Dharma Chakra) In the state emblem, adopted by the Government of India on  26 January 1950 , only three lions are visible, the fourth being hidden from view. The wheel appears in relief in the centre of the abacus with a bull on right and a horse on left and the outlines of other wheels on extreme right and left. The bell-shaped lotus has been omitted. The words  Satyameva Jayate  from  Mundaka Upanishad , meaning ' Truth Alone Triumphs ', are inscribed below the abacus in  Devanagari script .
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