Coat of arms of Kerala
| State Seal of Kerala | |
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| Armiger | The Government of Kerala |
| Adopted | 1960 |
| Crest | A Sarnath Lion Capital on the top |
| Escutcheon | On a circular laurel: The Sree Padmanabha's Shanku.. |
| Supporters | 2 Indian elephants with trunks raised in salutation pose |
| Other elements | 2 banners below the shield, each for carrying the words "Government of Kerala" in English and "Kerala Sarkar" in Malayalam. |
| Use | On all Acts of Niyamasabha;on all documents issued by state to the public; on all state correspondences of State Government and its agencies and on exteriors of all public state buildings. |
The State emblem of Kerala used by Government of Kerala, to represent the state in all its official correspondences. The emblem portrays two elephants guarding the state and national insignias.
The official Kerala emblem is a derivative version of the Royal coat of arms of the Kingdom of Travancore. The state emblem symbolizes two elephants guarding the imperial Sree Padmanabha's Shanku (Conch) in its imperial crest. The crest is garlanded with a wreath over which India's national emblem-Sarnath Lion Capital is found, as common to most Indian states. Beneath the sheath, it's inscribed as "Brihad-Aranyaka" in— Sanskrit inscribed in Devanagari script, which translated to "May light spell away darkness". The current emblem of Kerala was adopted in 1960 when Pattom A. Thanu Pillai's government came to power after removal of communist government by Indian Central Government.
Kerala Government has made changes in its official emblem by repositioning the inscription ‘Satyameva Jayate’ in Devanagari script under the Asiatic lions of the national emblem in it, which earlier came between two saluting elephants.
The changes, as per the recommendation of a committee that looked into the issue, were made to make the state emblem in tune with the national emblem as the Government of India uses the phrase ‘Satyameva Jayate’ below the four lions standing back-to-back, an official release said.
Presently, ‘Satyameva Jayate’ is written below the two saluting elephants, after the words ‘Government of Kerala’. Apart from this, the committee has also suggested increasing the size of the fonts for writing Government of Kerala in both Malayalam and English. The government had asked all departments to incorporate the changes when they use the symbol in future, the release said.
The earliest references of a national emblem in Kerala can be traced to times of Imperial Cheras who ruled much of the modern Kerala until 1102 AD. The first line of Chera dynasty was derived from Tamil dynasties belong to Sangam Era (350 BC-250 AD) and traditionally belonging to Villuvar clan (Hunters). As a result, the original state emblem of the Chera country was a Bow and arrow in charged position facing towards east (as a sign of preparedness for a war against its eastern neighbors)
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