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[Dominik Wujastyk]

Thanks, Artur.  I've now edited the Wikipedia page and removed the reference
to hospitals.

Best,
Dominik


On 13 August 2011 21:17, Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl> wrote:

> 2011/8/13 Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>:
> > 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
>
> Exactly.
>
> But there is this legendary Vaishali Pillar Edict which "records King
> Asoka building hospitals for both humans and animals"
>
> See:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary_medicine#History
>
> My sources might be already antiquated, but --- am I mistaken in
> remembering that the pillar in question (The Lion Pillar of Vaishali)
> carries no inscription?
>
>
> Artur
>


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