Who designed the Indian Flag?

tomarnidhi

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ah ashoka chakkar da ki link aa india de flag naal???

No, it's just that congress actually thought nobody would ever care about a flag with their party logo on it.(i.e charkha) So they took something entirely unrelated and try to say that it represents law..:rofl

Gandhi was fully opposed to its adoption until Nehru told him so.
 

Jaswinder Singh Baidwan

Akhran da mureed
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ah ashoka chakkar da ki link aa india de flag naal???

The Ashoka Chakra is a depiction of the Buddhist Dharmachakra, represented with 24 spokes. It is so called because it appears on a number of edicts of Ashoka, most prominent among which is the Lion Capital of Sarnath.
The most visible use of the Ashoka Chakra today is at the centre of the National flag of the Republic of India (adopted on 22 July 1947), where it is rendered in a Navy-blue colour on a White background, by replacing the symbol of Charkha (Spinning wheel) of the pre-independence versions of the flag.
When Buddha achieved nirvana (Enlightenment) at Gaya, he came to Sarnath on the outskirts of Varanasi. There He found his five disciples (panch vargiya Bhikshu) Ashwajeet, Mahanaam, Kaundinya, Bhadrak and Kashyap, who had earlier abandoned him. He preached his first sermon to them, thereby promulgating the Dharmachakra. This is the motif taken up by Ashoka and portrayed on top of his pillars. This is the origin of the chakra in the Indian flag and it asserts the strong ties of India with the Buddhist faith. It is also known as Bhavachakra.
However, the 12 out of 24 spokes represent the twelve causal links taught by The Buddha. The twelve causal links, paired with their corresponding symbols, are:


Avidyā lack of knowledge - a blind person, often walking, or a person peering out

Saṃskāra constructive volitional activity - a potter shaping a vessel or vessels

Vijñāna consciousness - a man or a monkey grasping a fruit

Nāmarūpa name and form (constituent elements of mental and physical existence) - two men afloat in a boat

Ṣaḍāyatana six senses (eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind) - a dwelling with six windows

Sparśa contact - lovers consorting, kissing, or entwined

Vedanā pain - an arrow to the eye

Tṛṣṇa thirst - a drinker receiving drink

Upādāna grasping[1] - a man or a monkey picking fruit

Bhava coming to be - a couple engaged in intercourse, a standing, leaping or reflective person

Jāti being born - woman giving birth

Jarāmaraṇa old age[2] and death[3] - corpse being carried


These 12 in reverse represent a total 24 spokes representing the Life-The Dhamma(Pali).
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who later became India's first Vice President, described the flag as follows:
Bhagwa or the saffron colour denotes renunciation of disinterestedness. Our leaders must be indifferent to material gains and dedicate themselves to their work.
The white in the centre is light, the path of truth to guide our conduct.
The green shows our relation to (the) soil, our relation to the plant life here, on which all other life depends.
The "Ashoka Chakra" in the centre of the white is the wheel of the law of dharma. Truth or satya, dharma or virtue ought to be the controlling principle of those who work under this flag. Again, the wheel denotes motion. There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement. India should no more resist change, it must move and go forward. The wheel represents the dynamism of a peaceful change.[4]
 
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