Logos of India

ANDHRA KESARI UNIVERSITY Andhra Kesari University is not just one of the oldest educational institutions in the country, but is also the first to be conceived as a residential and teaching-cum-affiliating University, mainly devoted to postgraduate teaching and research. It has its origin in 1926. The University College of Arts was inaugurated on July 1, 1931 with courses in Telugu language and literature, history, economics and politics. Its emblem has a torch held by an open book and circumscribed by a decorative border with border lines in gold colour. At the bottom, on a gold banner its acronym ‘AKU’ is written. The torch is an emblem of enlightenment, hope, life, truth and the regenerative power and the book symbolises knowledge, education and wisdom.  

ARYABHATTA KNOWLEDGE UNIVERSITY Aryabhatta Knowledge University (AKU), Patna has been established by the Government of Bihar for the development and management of educational infrastructure related to technical, medical, management and allied professional education in the state. The emblem of the university has a motif of a Mauryan era arch in brown colour, holding a drawing of an atom on a blue circle with a rising sun in the centre. Below the drawing on a banner, the motto of the of the university in Sanskrit ‘सत्यधर्माय दृष्टये’ (Verse 15, Ishopanishad) meaning ‘For the Law of the Truth for Sight’ is inscribed. The name of the university is written at the bottom in Devanagari and English. The arch denotes the State of Bihar and the Mauryan heritage; the drawing of atom denotes science and scientific temperament; the rising sun denotes light, life, energy, power, positivity and clarity; the colour brown symbolises earthiness, simplicity, stability, humility, warmth, reliabilit...