The Rājya Sabhā is the Upper House of the Parliament of India.
India issued a commemorative stamp on the 200th Rājya Sabhā Session on 11.12.2003.
The First Day Cover is imprinted with a beautiful śloka which conveys the concept of Sabhā as contained in the Māhābhārata, 5.35.49 (with slight variations) and Hitopadeśa. There is no Assembly where there are no elders, those who do not elicit Dharma are not to be considered as elders. What is not truth can never be righteous; and even righteous truth from a cheat is no truth!
"That is the message of the sloka, worth being inscribed as the writing on the wall in all places where people meet to discuss matters of human interest such as, the U.N.O., Parliament, Senate, Assembly and Sabhā!" -- so said the great Sri Chandrasekharendra Sarasvatī - Śri Śaṅkarācārya of Kānchi Kāmakoti Pītha.
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