The 6.5m (21ft 3in)-tall cast shows four Asiatic lions mounted back-to-back on a ... in 250BC - was a "brazen insult to India's national symbol". But a federal government minister on Tuesday ...

Since then the Lion symbol played a significant role in the history of Sri Lanka ... with four stylized leaves of the Bo (Pipul) tree, a Buddhist symbol, added to the four corners to replace the four ...