Monday, January 18, 2016

Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, Kolkata, 2011 - Special Cover




A special cover was brought out by the India Post on 16.12.2011 on the occasion of the Seminar on Four Decades of Mukta Bangladesh and Indo-Bangladesh Relations.

It was organised by the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies. The special cover shows their logo with the Sanskrit phrase:
इमं च नो गवेषणं
imaṃ ca no gaveṣaṇaṁ

This phrase is culled out from the Ṛgveda 6.56.5. The full text is --

इमं च नो गवेषणं सातये सीषधो गणम् ।
आरात् पूषन्नसि श्रुतः ॥
imaṃ ca no gaveṣaṇaṃ sātaye sīṣadho gaṇam
ārāt pūṣannasi śrutaḥ 


"Lead on this company of ours, that longs for kine, to win the spoil:
Thou, Pūṣan, art renowned afar."
                                                             -- Rg-veda, tr. by Ralph T.H. Griffith, (1896)


(Picture courtesy: Ashwin Ramesh)

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