TILAK MAHARASHTRA VIDYAPEETH

TILAK MAHARASHTRA VIDYAPEETH

The Maharashtra Provincial Conference on May 6, 1921 under the presidentship of Shrimat Shankaracharya of Karveer Peeth decided to have a national university in Maharashtra and the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (TMV) was established. The emblem of the university has a portrait of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak ensconced by a yellow border bearing the name of the university and its place. These are further supported by a pair of lions on either side and by a banner bearing its motto in Sanskrit ‘विद्या बोधकरी यशःसुखकरी विद्या गुरुणाम गुरुः’ meaning ‘Knowledge Enlightens, Fame brings Happiness and Knowledge is the Teacher of the Teachers’ at the bottom. The year of its establishment is written below the banner. Lions symbolise strength, courage, nobility and leadership; yellow denotes happiness, joy, creativity and focus and blue denotes trust, security and stability.