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SOMAIYA VIDYAVIHAR UNIVERSITY The Somaiya Vidyavihar Complex was founded in 1959 by the late Shri K.J. Somaiya. Karamshibhai set up the Somaiya Trust in 1953 for shaping young minds through quality education. On August 26, 2019, Somaiya Vidyavihar announced that it would be ‘the first ever private university in Mumbai’. The red colour circular emblem of the university has a traditional lamp crested by its motto in Sanskrit ‘ज्ञानादेव तु कैवल्यम्’ and its English version ‘Knowledge Alone Liberates’ meaning knowledge liberates one from poverty, hunger and other attachments. At the bottom its name is written. The traditional lamp symbolises light, illumination, awakening, devotion, purity, guidance, protection, hope and prosperity.

SREE SANKARACHARYA SANSKRIT UNIVERSITY Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS) is one of the pioneering Sanskrit universities in India in teaching, research and innovations. The university was established in 1993 in Kalady, Kerala. The emblem of SSUS has a lotus as a centrepiece supporting a sacred conch with the portrait of Adi Sankaracharya. The conch is crested by a flame. On either side of these there is a Kamadhenu. Its motto in Sanskrit ‘ज्ञानादेव तु कैवल्यम्’ meaning ‘Liberation through Knowledge’ is inscribed on a banner above the lotus. Below these, on a banner the name of the university is written. Lotus denotes purity, knowledge and wisdom; sacred conch denotes all the elements and the sound Om; flame denotes light and purity; Kamadhenu, the sacred cow denotes source of all prosperity.