2011/8/13 Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@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