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State emblem unveiled in the Secretariat

Special Correspondent

— PHOTO: P.V. Sivakumar

Symbol of bounty: Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy after unveiling the ‘Purnakumbham’ in the Secretariat complex in Hyderabad on Saturday as official languages panel chief A.B.K. Prasad looks on.

HYDERABAD: A ‘poornaghatam’ sculpted on a cuboid-shaped granite rock, will greet visitors soon after they step into Secretariat hereafter.

The replica of ‘poornaghatam’ (an overflowing vase) of Amaravati stupa, which the State government had adopted as its emblem along with Ashoka wheel and the four lion heads in 1956 marking the 2,500th Buddha Jayanti, was unveiled by Chief Minister Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Saturday.

State Official Languages Commission chairman A. B. K. Prasad informed the Chief Minister that the ‘poornaghatam’, which represented bounty in a country in all sectors, was presented to the Amaravati stupa by a leather worker, Vidhikudu, in 3rd century BC.

The Chief Minister said the replica too held a mirror to the situation of plenty prevailing in the State now. It was also symbol of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity and a visitor could be sure of getting of these in the Secretariat under his government, he observed.

The Chief Minister later felicitated its sculptor sthapati T. Venkateswarlu of Venkateswara Shilpasala near Shilparamam here.

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