Logos of India

NIZAM’S INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES The insignia of Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) has a number of motifs housed in a circle. The motif of heart forms the background on which the Staff of Hermes or Caduceus with a pair of entwined serpents; a x-ray of the human brain and a graph of echocardiography are placed. These are ensconced by a circular border, which carries the name and place of the university separated by two crosses. At the bottom below the seal on a banner its motto in Telugu ‘సర్వే సంతు నిరామయాః’ (35.51, Garuḍa Purāṇa) meaning ‘May no One Suffer from Illness’ is inscribed. The Staff of Hermes represents medicine and medical service; the heart denotes metaphorically the service from heart; the x-ray and the graph denote the medical technology and their use in diagnosis and treatment.

NIMS UNIVERSITY RAJASTHAN Nims University Rajasthan, Jaipur is a largest self-financed university in Rajasthan, which is structured as a composite model university. This was established under the Nims University Act, 2008, enacted by the Government of Rajasthan and recognized by the Government of India Under the provisions of Sections 2(f) of the University Grants Commissions Act, 1956. The emblem of this university has a shield divided into three segments of red, green and blue with a yellow border. The red segment has caduceus staff that was carried by the olympian God Hermes. In Greek mythology, Hermes was a messenger between the gods and humans (which explains the wings) and a guide to the underworld (which explains the staff). Hermes was also the patron of travelers, which makes his connection to medicine appropriate because doctors of the olden days had to travel great distances by foot in order to visit their patients. The green segment has a torch which symbolises...