KUMAUN UNIVERSITY
KUMAUN UNIVERSITY The insignia of Kumaun University (KU) has a circle housing the motifs of Kumaun Mountains and its valley supported by an open book and its year of establishment. The mountain range represents the regional geography and the open book denotes education, knowledge, learning and wisdom. The colour blue denotes serenity, calmness, trust, spirituality, calmness, wisdom, freedom, openness, intelligence and loyalty. The dark blue circular border ensconces the circular motif and is inscribed with its name in Devanagari and its motto in Sanskrit ‘सर्व ज्ञाने परिसमाप्यते’ (Shloka 33, Chapter 4, Bhagavad Gita) meaning ‘Everything Culminate in Knowledge’.