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Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair was awarded both Ashoka Chakra and Kirti Chakra. Damodar Kashinath Jatar, a pilot of Air India's Kashmir Princess was the first civilian recipient of the Ashoka Chakra. Colonel Yury Malyshev and Flight Engineer Gennadi Strekalov from Russia were the first foreign recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (both were ...
The Ashoka Chakra (Transl: Ashoka's wheel) is an Indian symbol which is a depiction of the dharmachakra (English: "wheel of dharma"). It is so-called because it appears on a number of edicts of Ashoka the Great , [ 1 ] most prominent among which is the Lion Capital of Ashoka . [ 2 ]
The Ashoka Chakra (Ashoka wheel) on its base features in the centre of the National Flag of India. The actual Sarnath capital features four Asiatic lions standing back to back, symbolising power, courage, confidence and pride, mounted on a circular base. At the bottom is a horse and a bull, and at its centre is a Dharma chakra.
In 1956, after the formation of the Andhra Pradesh, colloquially referred to as United Andhra Pradesh, the Government of Andhra Pradesh embraced a Poorna Kalasam, a ceremonial metal vessel characterized by its broad base and narrow neck which serves as a sacred ornament adorning the Amaravati Stupa along with an Ashoka Chakra and the four lion heads as its official emblem on the occasion of ...
The Ashoka Chakra has twenty-four evenly spaced spokes. [21] The size of the Ashoka Chakra is not specified in the flag code, but in section 4.3.1 of "IS1: Manufacturing standards for the Indian Flag", there is a chart that describes specific sizes of the flag and the chakra (reproduced alongside). [26]
Sync with File:Flag of India (construction sheet) (2-3).svg and File:Flag of India (construction sheet - Ashoka Chakra detail).svg which are based on government specifications. 11:32, 26 May 2022: 500 × 500 (4 KB) Vikassinghhhh: Spoke Width 10° with 5° difference. According to Guidelines: 07:53, 25 April 2022: 512 × 512 (2 KB) ChiK: color ...
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The dimensions on this construction sheet can be scaled to create the Ashoka Chakra used on flag sizes #1, #2, #3, and #4. No scaling is required for flag size #6. This construction sheet is not compatible with the Ashoka Chakra for flag sizes #5, #7, #8, & #9 because the government has rounded some of the dimensions for those flag sizes.