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P. 183. According to the 17th century European travellers the hospitals for the sick animals in some parts of Western India probably established by the Jains.
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A. KRISHNASWAMY-Indigenous Veterinary medicine. (Proc. and Tran. A.I.O.C., XVIIIth Session, 1955), Annamalainagar, 1958.
P. 547. Mrigapakshi Śästra by Hamsadeva deals with the various kinds of animals and birds with their varieties, colours, temperaments and various stages of life, etc. interesting for zoologists and veterinarians.
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R. S. SHARMA-Irrigation in Northern India during the post- Maurya period. (Circa 200 B.C.-circa A.D. 200) (Proc. I.H.C., XXth Session), Bombay, 1958.
P. 59. The Hathigumpha inscription informs us about the repair and enclosing of a tank in Kalinganagari by Kharavela (D.C. Sircar, Select Inscriptions, vol. I, P. 207).
P. 61. Hathigumpha inscription of Kharavela informs us about the existence of a triñsata years old canal in Kalinga Nagari (1.6). The inscription also records. that in the fifth year of his reign he caused the canal opened by king Nanda, a hundred and three years back, to be brought into the capital from the Tansüli Road, and caused to be dug at the cost of a hundred thousand coins (BARUA, old Brahmi Inscriptions, P. 43).
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UMAKANT P. SHAH--Mahapurushalakshanas in Jaina canons. (Proc. and Trans. A.IO.C., XVIIIth Session, 1955), Annamalainagar, 1958,
P. 285. Mahapurus halakshana or marks of great men obtained from the Aupapatika Sutra and the Acalyaka Carni wonderfully corresponding with the Buddhist evidence show that the Jaina traditions obtained from the Agamas often. go back to two or three centuries B.C.
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