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[Dominik Wujastyk]

There's absolutely not a shred of evidence that Aśoka built hospitals, by
the way.  This got into the secondary literature once, and has been repeated
ever since.

Dominik

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Dr Dominik Wujastyk
Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde
Universität Wien
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A-1090 Vienna
Austria
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2011/8/13 Thrasher, Allen <athr at loc.gov>

> "A sixties issue of the Polish Great Encyclopedia presented Aśoka, quite
> consistently, as a builder of the hospitals for animals. But not only. In
> this famous entry he was also a builder of the hospitals for plants."****
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> Presumably only for potted plants, since digging up and moving would put a
> strain on plants in the ground.  Or did Maurya bureaucrats, like their
> British Indian successors, in anticipation of transfer do their gardening in
> pots so their favorites could move with them to the next station? ;-)****
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