Coat of arms of Karnataka
| State emblem of Karnataka | |
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| Details | |
| Armiger | The Government of Karnataka |
| Crest | A Sarnath Lion Capital |
| Escutcheon | Gules, a Ganda Berunda argent, a bordure azure |
| Supporters | 2 lion-elephant Sharabha |
| Motto | "सत्यमेव जयते" (Satyameva Jayate, Sanskrit for "Truth Alone Triumphs") |
The coat of arms of Karnataka is the state emblem of Karnataka, India. The coat and shield of arms have been adopted from the Coat and Shield of Arms of the Kingdom of Mysore. The heraldry crest is the one used by the Government of India, the one that Ashoka the great designed and used in the 300 BC. The arms has a red shield charged with a white two-headed bird, "Sharaba(Ganda) Berunda" and bordured in blue. Crested above it, four red-maned, yellow lions stand back-to-back facing four directions (only three are visible) 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 Dharmachakras on the extreme left and right as part of Sarnath's Ashoka Pillar. The shield is flanked on either side by red-maned, yellow lion-elephant Sharabha supporters (mythical creatures believed to be upholders of righteousness stronger than lions and elephants) standing on a green, leafy compartment. Below the compartment lies written in stylized Devanāgarī, the national motto of India, "सत्यमेव जयते" (Satyameva Jayate, Sanskrit for "Truth Alone Triumphs"). [1]
These arms are adapted from the royal emblem of Mysore and is carried on all official correspondences made by Government of Karnataka.