ALLAHABAD DEGREE COLLEGE

ALLAHABAD DEGREE COLLEGE

The University of Allahabad established the Allahabad Degree College in 1956. Its emblem in red, green, blue, yellow and brown has a banyan tree symbolising evergreen, perpetual and continuously growing; a burning torch symbolising passion and inspiration and a book symbolising knowledge and wisdom duly separated by a border of water representing the rivers of the land, ensconced by a circular border which has its name written in Devanagari and its motto in Sanskrit  ‘न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते’ (Shloka 38, Chapter 4, Srimad Bhagavad Gita) meaning ‘In this World there Exists No Purifier Comparable to Knowledge’. The emblem is duly bordered by a pair of red lines.