Administrative System of the Marathas c21.s4.10

c21.s4.10

The study of medicine was encouraged by grants of Inam lands to eminent physicians. They were further encouraged to distribute medicine gratis. No distinction of caste and creed was in this respect made. Among the grantees, we find mention of Hindu and Muham-madan physicians and of a Portuguese Missionary doctor.³⁹ It appears that physicians also got an annual Dakshana.⁴⁰