Ashoka all fish and castration of animals during certain periods such as Chaturmasa and Uposatha. Ashoka also abolished the royal hunting of animals and restricted the slaying of animals for food in the royal residence. Because he banned hunting, created many veterinary clinics and eliminated meat eating on many holidays, the Mauryan Empire under Ashoka has been described as "one of the very few instances in world history of a government treating its animals as citizens who are as deserving of its protection as the human residents". The Ashoka Chakra (the wheel of Ashoka) is a depiction of the Dharmachakra (the
Pansexual pride flag agender, bigender and genderfluid people. The bisexual pride flag on the other hand has three horizontal bars of other colors: pink, purple, and blue. The pink portion of the flag represents sexual attraction to the same sex, the blue portion of the flag represents sexual attraction to the opposite sex, and the overlapping purple portion of the flag represents sexual attraction to both sexes. Pansexual pride flag The pansexual pride flag was designed as a symbol for the pansexual community to use. The pansexual pride flag has been found on various internet sites since mid-2010. It is similar to the