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The two headed eagle is holding two elephants in his claws and beaks, revealing his enormous powers.In a coin found in Madurai, he is holding a snake in his beak. [2] All 2-dimensional depictions show a symmetrical image in which he is a double-headed eagle while other images show his long tail feathers like a peafowl.
Double-headed eagle in Jiroft, Iran, 3rd millennium BC. The double-headed eagle is an iconographic symbol originating in the Bronze Age.The earliest predecessors of the symbol can be found in Mycenaean Greece and in the Ancient Near East, especially in Mesopotamian and Hittite iconography.
The regimental insignia is adapted from the Gandaberunda of the Mysore Lancers. It consists of the two headed eagle and a scroll below with the words 'Sixty First Cavalry'. The shoulder title consists of "61C" in brass.
Gandaberunda is not Eagle as mentioned in Article. It is a mythological bird & definitely have no relation with Eagle. It is a mythological bird & definitely have no relation with Eagle. I recomend to remove this.
In the shield is the Gandaberunda, a two-headed mythical eagle, one head symbolising justice, the other freedom. It is supposed to betoken the idea that when one head falls asleep, the other is awake, thus fulfilling their duty of eternal freedom and justice. It holds in each of its hands and beaks an elephant.
The state emblem has a red shield charged with a white two-headed bird, Gandabherunda bordered in blue. The crest depicts the Lion Capital of Ashoka (also used as the emblem of the Government of India), on a blue circular abacus with a blue frieze carrying sculptures in high relief of a galloping horse on the left, a Dharmachakra in centre, a bull on the right, and the outlines of ...
INS Mysore was built at Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai.Her keel was laid down in February 1991 and she was launched on 4 June 1993. Sea trials began in the Arabian Sea in March 1999, and she was commissioned on 2 June 1999 with the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee as the Chief Guest.
The crest for Mysore depicted the mythological double-headed eagle Gandaberunda from the coat of arms of the former Mysore state. The ship's motto Na bibheti kadachana was taken from the Taittiriya Upanishad .