The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c23.49
The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c23.49
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c23.49
The animal hospitals, which still exist at Ahmadābād, Sūrat, and many other towns in Western India, may be regarded as either survivals or copies of the institutions founded by the Maurya monarch. The following account of the Sūrat hospital, as it was maintained late in the eighteenth century, probably would have been applicable with little change to the prototype at Pātaliputra:—