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The Eleventh Anga [ 1. Lect. 8. gods ! go and proclaim aloud in the meeting places (here the rest to be supplied $$ 5–6, down to ) roads thus : "Truly, oh you beloved of the gods ! a fish-bone has got into the throat of Soriyadatta and therefore the fisherman Soriyadatta will give abundance of wealth to any physician (6) who would extract the fish-bone out of his neck." Then the family membres proclaimed accordingly. Then many physicians (6) heard this proclamation while it was being announced, and having done so they went to the house of Soriyadatta and went to where the fisherman Sorivadatta was lying, and making use of their "Four Talents' viz. (1) Intuitive--Autapattiki', (2) Discimlined “Vuinayikî, (3) the talent acquired by PracticeKarmaji' and (4) Developeit talent or the talent acquired by maturity oj age- Parinamikî,* they tried to extract the fish-bone out of the neck of the fisherman Soriyadatta by means of vomitting, medicines to vomit, it pain-giving treatment (such as bearino, striking or rubbing hard the diseased part of the body), swallowing of morsels, Salludhharana-taking out of the dart with the help of some medical instruments, and removing the dart with the help of some medicines. But they were not able to extract or remove it (inside). Then the several physicians (6), when they were not able to extract ihe fish-bone from
*For a fuller and detailed explanation on these Four Talents are often alluded to in Jain books and the stories illustrating ihem, refer to the notes on the same term in my Edition of Sirisirivālakalia Part I. pp. 9 to 35.
