Patna University

A Special Cover was released at Patna on 8th December 2017  to commemorate the Centennial celebration of Patna University, Patna, Bihar. 

The seventh university in the Indian subcontinent and the first in Bihar, this university was founded by an Act of Legislation on 1st October 1917. It remained the only university in Bihar until January 1952 and continued to be the examining body of educational institutions in Nepal and Orissa until the founding of the Tribhuban University of Nepal and the  Utkal University of Orissa. The Special Cover bears buildings of Patna University. The Cancellation depicts the Logo of the university and the tag line in the said logo , 'Satyam Twaev Vijigyasitavyam' i.e. one must desire to understand the truth, culled from the Chhandogya Upanishad ( 7.16.I ).

Courtesy: Lalit K Mishra, Patna