Order of the Sun (India)

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|title = Order of the Sun

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Maharaja of Jaipur

|type = Order of chivalry

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|motto = Yato Dharmastato Jai
यतो धर्मस्ततो जय:
یتو دھرمستّو جے

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|for = At the Maharaja's pleasure

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|head_title= Sovereign

|head= Crown Prince Padmanabh Singh

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|higher = The Most Eminent Order of the Star of Dhundhar

|lower = Order of Merit{{cite book |last1=Joshi |first1=Varsha |title=Culture, Communities and Change |date=2002 |publisher=Institute of Rajasthan Studies |isbn=978-81-7033-747-8 |page=47 |language=en|quote=As with other states, this innocuous beginning would soon be extended with a royal family order (The Most Eminent Order of the Star of Dhundhar), a state order (The Order of the Sun/Aditya Mandal), a general order/medal of merit, and a silver jubilee medal for the ruler, though issued only in 1947.}}

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The Order of the Sun is a chivalric order of knights in India, being awarded by the Royal House of Jaipur.{{cite book|last=Sainty|first=Guy Stair|title=World Orders of Knighthood and Merit|date=17 August 2006|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry|language=English|isbn=9780971196674|page=1221}} The motto of the Order of the Sun is Yato Dharmastato Jayah, meaning 'Where There is Virtue, There is Victory' and the badge of the Order of the Sun is an "eight-petalled flower in red enamel".

The designer of the decorations for the Order of the Sun was M.H.S. Spielman of Oxford.{{cite book |last1=McClenaghan |first1=Tony |title=Indian Princely Medals: A Record of the Orders, Decorations, and Medals of the Indian Princely States |date=1996 |publisher=Lancer Publishers |isbn=978-1-897829-19-6 |page=55 |language=en}}

In her 2017 bal des débutantes, Ava Phillippe took Padmanabh Singh as her date and as is customary with full evening dress, he was wearing the decoration of the Order of the Sun.{{cite web|url=https://mx.hola.com/moda/2017112720353/ava-phillippe-baile-debutantes-reese-witherspoon|title=¡Una princesa! Ava Phillippe en el Baile de Debutantes -junto a una maravillada Reese Witherspoon|last=Eledon|first=Geraldine|date=27 November 2017|publisher=¡Hola!|language=Spanish|accessdate=6 December 2017}}