The national symbol of India consists of the famous Ashokan lion capital, with a wheel or chakra

Source of emblem: http://www.payer.de/neobuddhismus/neobud14a1.htm
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Source of image: http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/asokapillar.htm
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The flag too contains this Ashokan Buddhist chakra symbol

Source: http://www.payer.de/neobuddhismus/neobud14a1.htm
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The chakra motif appears many times at the great Buddhist site of Sanchi, c. 1st c. BCE

Source: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/aiis/aiis_search.html?depth=Get+Details&id=40096
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Sanchi also contains some very Ashokan triple-lion sets

Source: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/aiis/aiis_search.html?depth=Get+Details&id=40118
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Sanchi also contains a triple-lion pillar, in the southern gateway of the Great Stupa

Source: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/images/aiis/aiis_search.html?depth=Get+Details&id=34687
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