Satyameva Jayate Satyameva Jayate "Satyameva Jayate" ( ""; lit. "Truth alone triumphs.") is a "mantra" from the ancient Indian scripture "Mundaka Upanishad". Following the independence of India, it was adopted as the national motto of India in 26 January 1950. It is inscribed in script at the base of the national emblem. The emblem and the words "Satyameva Jayate" are inscribed on one side of all Indian currency. The emblem is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka which was erected around 250 BCE at Sarnath, near Varanasi in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is inscribed on all currency
National emblem of Turkey a national emblem. Namık İsmail, a painter, won the contest with his coat of arms depicting Asena, a mythological wolf in the founding myth of the "Gökbörü" clan which ruled the Göktürk Empire. However, this coat of arms was never used. National emblem of Turkey The Republic of Turkey has no official national emblem, but the star and crescent ( "crescent-star") design from the national flag is in use as "de facto" emblem, among other things printed on Turkish passports, on Turkish identity cards and diplomatic missions of Turkey. The star and crescent is retained from the 19th-century Ottoman flag,