Hindu Medicine c7.239

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c7.239

The medical encyclopedias contain no references to hospitals or dispensaries providing medicines for the poor. Such institutions, however, are among the pious donations and liberal endowments described in those Buddhist legends and tales of the first centuries A. D. which dwell upon exemplars of the basic virtue of alms-giving and unselfish generosity (dāna-pāramitā).

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