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Identify the city being spoken about by Fa Hsien in the given passage.

History · Rise of Indian Nationalism UGC NET December 2024 History
Passage
Described as charity hospitals established by the heads of the Vaisya families, Fa Hsien lists a cross section of poor and maimed people who were examined and given medicines for cure at these hospitals. The stay of the patients and provisioning for medicine was available in-house. In effect, the description seems to physically testify the existing form of the ideal type of an Ayurveda hospital that Charaka had mentioned in his treatise. Seen in conjunction with Emperor Asoka's edicts about planting of medical herbs, and passages from Sanskrit and Pali literature about the merits of establishing 'Arogyashala', Charaka's description of a hospital does not seem to be historically untenable. They lend credence to the Indic claim of being the place where institutional health care in South Asia evolved first.
Identify the city being spoken about by Fa Hsien in the given passage.
APaithan
BPataliputra ✓ Correct
CVaisali
DKashi
Correct answer: (B) Pataliputra — The answer is Pataliputra.
Explanation
The answer is Pataliputra.
The city Fa Hsien refers to in the passage is Pataliputra.
Fa Hsien arrived in India in 399 at the age of sixty to collect sacred Buddhist texts.
He stayed until 412, that is for about fourteen years.
He returned to China by sea after entering India by land.
He wrote an account of his travels in his book, the Fo-Kwo-Ki.

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