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What Is The Significance Of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s Seal Used In The New Navy Ensign?

Mumbai: Indian Navy’s new ensign bears the seal of the Maratha emperor Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who is known to have laid the foundation for the modern Navy in India.

The blue octagon encasing the National Emblem represents the eight directions, symbolising the Navy’s “multidirectional reach and operational capability”.

Supplanting the past ensign which showed the cross of Saint George, a remainder of India’s pioneer past, the new Nishaan shows the tricolor on the upper left hand corner and a blue octagon encasing the public image on an anchor superimposed on a safeguard with the Navyan’s witticism “Sam No Varuna” in Devanagari on the right side.

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The Prime Minister’s Office in a proclamation said that the new ensign would be “getting rid of the provincial past and befitting the rich Indian oceanic legacy.”

The Indian Navy’s ensign has changed multiple times before this. After Independence, in 1950, the ensign was changed with the Indian public banner supplanting the Union Jack in the canton (upper left corner).

In 2001, St. George’s cross was supplanted with the maritime peak in the banner yet the progressions were turned around in 2004, when the cross was carried back alongside the Ashoka token. In 2014, ‘Satyamev Jayate’ written in Devanagari script was incorporated beneath the Ashoka emblem.

The blue octagon encasing the public seal addresses the eight bearings and has been incorporated as an image of the Navy’s “multidirectional reach and complex functional capacity”. The anchor underneath the seal portrays faithfulness.

The octagonal shape with twin brilliant lines is motivated by the mark of Maratha Emperor Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who had laid out a noteworthy maritime armada during his rule.

The Navy’s witticism “Sam No Varuna” — a Vedic mantra conjuring Varuna, the divine force of oceans, to be favorable — has been included Devanagari.

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