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 156 A Short History of The World He founded hospitals and public gardens and gardens for the growing of medicinal lierbs. He created a ministry for the care of the aborighies and subject races of India. He made provision for the A LOHAN OR BUDDHIST APOSTLE iTang Uynasl,) [From the statifc in Ihc British Musiui::) education of women. He made ^ast benefactions to the Buddhist teaching orders, and tried to stimulate tliem to a better and more energetic criticism of their own accumulated literature. For corruptions and superstitiovis accretions had accumulated very speedily upon the pure and simple teaching of the great Indian master.