Logos of India

BIRSA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY Birsa Agricultural University (BAU) was established on June 26, 1981. The emblem of the university has an open book with the images of a village with cattle on a background of mountains with rising sun, tractor and its motto in Sanskrit ‘तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय’ (Yajnavalkya,1.3.28, Pavamana Mantra, Brihadaranyaka Upanishad) meaning ‘From Darkness Lead me to Light’ are ensconced in a circular border which carries its name in Devanagari and English. The border is surmounted by a portion of a gear wheel and supported by its year of establishment and a pair of laurels of grain heads. The open book symbolises knowledge, wisdom and education; the rising sun denotes light, universal prosperity and path for growth; the other motifs are representing the geography of the land and the laurels represent agriculture, food, ceremonies, victory, achievement, hard work and dedication.

BIHAR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY Bihar Agricultural University (BAU), Sabour was established August 5, 2010 is a basic and strategic institution supporting more than five hundred researchers and educationists towards imparting education at graduate and postgraduate levels. The emblem of the university has the motifs of a helical structure of DNA, a satellite antenna, an open book and a cow supported by a pair of laurels of wheat heads and ensconced by a gear wheel. These are surrounded by a circular border on which the name and place of the university is inscribed in English and Devanagari. The cow and antenna represent agriculture and information technology; the open book denotes education, knowledge and wisdom, the laurels denote food, prosperity, success and hard work and the gear wheel denotes interconnectedness; efficiency and precision; progress and advancement; synchronisation and timing and order and structure.