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" I have constantly maintained at eighteen different places (hospitals) provided with suitable diet, and medicines prepared by medical practitioners for the infirm. I have bestowed at four and forty places, rice prepared with sugar and honey ; and at the... "
The Maháwanṣo in Roman Characters: With the Translation Subjoined; and an ... - Page 184
by Mahānāma - 1837 - 292 pages
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The Maháwanso in Roman Characters: With the Translation Subjoined and an ...

Mahānāma, George Turnour - Buddhism - 1837 - 446 pages
...garments (which constitute the sacerdotal robes). On five several occasions 1 have conferred, with (he most gratified feelings, on the national church, the...rice, constantly. I have provided monthly all the wiháros in Lanka with lamp oil, for the eight ' iipósatha ' days in each month. Having learnt that...
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Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and ..., Volume 1

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Natural history - 1859 - 732 pages
...the numerous proofs of his devotion to the welfare of his subjects, it was recorded that the king had "maintained at eighteen different places, hospitals...prepared by medical practitioners for the infirm." 4 In the second century of the Christian era, a physician 1 See Dr. ROTLE'S Essay on the Antiquity...
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Medical History from the Earliest Times: A Popular History of the Healing Art

Edward Theodore Withington - History of Medicine - 1894 - 448 pages
...BC 161, he ordered the record of his deeds to be read to him, in which it was said : " I have daily maintained at eighteen different places, hospitals...medicines prepared by medical practitioners for the infirm ". King Buddhadasa (AD 341) was a mine of virtue and an ocean of riches, who patronised the righteous,...
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The Mahávan̥sa, Part II.: Containing Chapters XXXIX. to C

Dhammakitti - 1909 - 574 pages
...places, an illumination of seven thousand lamps, lit with clarified butter and white wicks. I have daily maintained at eighteen different places (hospitals)...prepared by medical practitioners for the infirm. 1 have bestowed at four and forty places rice prepared with sugar and honey ; and at the same number...
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The Lost Cities of Ceylon

Geraldine Edith Mitton - Ectinct cities - 1917 - 320 pages
...cheerful Buddhist custom, all the good deeds of the dying king were recited, among them that he had " maintained at eighteen different places hospitals...prepared by medical practitioners for the infirm." And with his eyes fixed on Ruanweli he died in the year 137 BC after a reign of twenty-four years....
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