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seas, after he had tried to ransom the world by giving 

 away to the utmost, there came a time when he had nothing 

 I more to give, except one half of an Amlaki fruit. This 

 was his last possession, and his anguished cry was that since 

 he had nothing more to give, let the half of the Amlaki 

 be accepted as his final gift. 



Asoka's emblem of the Amlaki will be seen on the 

 I cornices of the Institute, and towering above all is the 

 I symbol of the thunderbolt. It was the Rishi Dadhichi, 

 j the pure and blameless, who offered his life that the divine 

 weapon, the thunderbolt, might be fashioned out of his 

 ! bones to smite evil and exalt righteousness. It is but 

 half 'of the Amlaki that we can offer now. But the past 

 7 shall be reborn in a yet nobler future. We stand here 

 I to-day and resume work to-morrow, so that by the efforts 

 of our lives and our unshaken faith in the future we may 

 all help to build the greater India yet to be, 



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