...the other kingdoms as well. The Heads of the Vais"ya families in them establish in the cities houses for dispensing charity and medicines. All the poor...people and cripples, and all who are diseased, go to those houses, and are provided with every kind of help, and doctors examine their diseases. They get...

...the other kingdoms as well. The heads of the Vaisya families in them establish in the cities houses for dispensing charity and medicines. All the poor...people and cripples, and all who are diseased, go to those houses and are provided with every kind of help, and doctors examine their diseases. They get...

...alms and medicines. All the poor and poverty-striken people in the country go to those centers — orphans, widowers, and childless men, maimed people and cripples, and all who are sick. At these centers, they receive every kind of help, and doctors examine their illnesses. They...

...[all the kingdoms of north India] establish in the cities houses for dispensing charity and medicine. All the poor and destitute in the country, orphans,...people and cripples, and all who are diseased, go to those houses, and are provided with every kind of help, and doctors examine their diseases. They get...

...orphans, widowers, and childless men, maimed people and cripples, and all who are diseased, go to those houses, and are provided with every kind of help,...medicines which their cases require, and are made to fed at ease ; and when they are better, they go away of themselves. When king AJoka destroyed the seven...