Coat of arms of Nepal

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Coat of arms of Nepal
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Details
Introduced December 30, 2006
Motto (motto) : जननी जन्मभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपी गरीयसी
(Jananī janmabhūmiśca svargādapi garīyasī.)
(The mother and the motherland are greater than the sky.)

The coat of arms of Nepal was introduced on December 30, 2006 as a gesture of national reconciliation after the end of the civil war .

description

The coat of arms shows the outline of the country over the stylized green hilly landscape, which is towered over by Mount Everest .

Underneath, a woman and a man shake hands as a symbol of gender equality.

Below that, two red ears of wheat on a golden background represent the fertile Terai region.

The coat of arms is surrounded by a wreath of rhododendron , the national flower of Nepal, at the top of which is the flag of Nepal .

Below the coat of arms there is a band of letters on which the Sanskrit national saying is written in Devanagari script :

जननी जन्मभूमिश्च स्वर्गादपी गरीयसी
( Jananī janmabhūmiśca svargādapi garīyasī. )
( The mother and the motherland are bigger than the sky. )

history

As Nepal received a new constitution on December 16, 1962 was changed also introduced in the 1920s, the first national emblem, the God in a triangle sign Shiva growing constituted from a lake in front of the Himalayas.

The second coat of arms, which was in use until December 30, 2006, shows a landscape at the foot of the Himalayas with a cow (the national animal ), a bright pheasant (the national bird ) and rhododendron flowers (the national flowers ), flanked by two gurkha soldiers .

In this coat of arms a river valley spreads out in front of the mountains. In front of the mountains stood the temple of Pashupatinath , the destroyer of all evil. At the river stood the national animal, a white cow, and the national bird, a Lophophorus pheasant. They were framed by the national flower, the rhododendron arboreum.

About the landscape, the royal emblems were placed two crossed Khukuri daggers and national flags and footprints of Vishnu and the Nepalese royal crown.

The national motto could be read on the banner at the bottom:

“ The homeland is worth more than the kingdom of heaven. "

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Hesmer: Flags and coats of arms of the world. History and symbolism of the flags and coats of arms of all states. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 1992, ISBN 3-570-01082-1 .

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