The Khanda or Sikh Symbol

The Khanda or Sikh Symbol

Emblem

The Khanda or the symbol of the Sikh faith is an image that displays a double-edged sword (khanda) in the center, a Chakkar and two single-edged swords on either side of the khanda and Chakkar. The symbol took on this current form around the first decade of the 20th century. The symbol depicts the "Deg Tegh Fateh" in an emblematic form in order to represent the integration of spiritual and temporal sovereignty by not treating either as two separate entities. 

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Check out sources on religious symbols below:
William L. Rowe, Religious Symbols and God: A Philosophical Study of Tillich's Theology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968).

Sources:

Elizabethtown College (Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA)

Dr. William V. Puffenberger

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A bronze symbol of the Khanda or National Sikh movement.

Sanskrit

Physical Object

Puffenberger #81

India