The Mauryan Polity c7.s1.t12.10

c7.s1.t12.10

possible. Aśoka's was not mere lip sympathy. He in fact did his level best to advance the comforts of his subjects. His administration undertook such kinds of public works as were acceptable to the common will and tended towards public utility. These were hospitals for beast and man, rest-houses, roads with medicinal herbs and plants, wells, irrigation works, prohibition of the eating of flesh as far as possible, avoiding war and consequently bloodshed, endowments for religious purposes and propaganda for moral and material uplift.