Logos of India

SHREE SOMNATH SANSKRIT UNIVERSITY Shree Somnath Sanskrit University (SSSU) was created by the Gujarat State government through the Shree Somnath Sanskrit University Act in 2005 for the research and teaching of Sanskrit literature. The emblem of the university has a traditional lamp placed on a bunch of palm leaf manuscripts and placed in a yellow circle with an orange border. It is ensconced by a yellow and orange border on which its name and place is written in Devanagari. Below the circle, on a banner, the motto of the university is inscribed with a quote from Kalidasa’s Meghdootam 20. It reads in Sanskrit ‘पूर्णता गौरवाय’ meaning ‘Fullness Contributes to Heaviness and the Best (Respect)’. The palm leaf manuscript symbolises the traditional knowledge and wisdom; the traditional lamp symbolises light, illumination, awakening, devotion, purity, guidance, protection, hope and prosperity; the colour yellow denotes happiness, energy, vitality, focus and creativity and orange sy...

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.