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LECTURE VIII
We quote below to support our slatement "Bcing naturally clever, he had read such books as the Agastyamala, and thc Ratnapariksā of of Buddhabhatta, and from living in the company of jewel-lester hc had become expert in the discrimination of jems "47 Intelligence as the sound basis of professional success has also been sui essed in the "Vivagasuyam” the eleventh Anga of the Jaina canon It is said in the above canon that a good many medical praclioners who had been in the house of Soriyadatta, the chief of fishermen, lo cxtricate a fish-bone from his throat used their utmost shall by applying the 'Four Talents' only to meet a with total failure We quote below to support our claim “Then many physicians heard this proclamation while it was being announced, and having done so they went to the house of Soriyadaltı and went to where the fishei man Soriyadalla was lying, and making use of their, 'Four Talents V17 (1) Intuitive-'Amulapalliki', (2) Disciplined—'Vainayıkı. (3) the talent acquned by practice ‘Kaimaja' and (4) Developed talent or the talent acquired by maturity of age 'Parinamiki', they tried to extract the fish-bone out of the neck of the fisherman Soriyadatta by means of vomitting, medicines to vomit, a pain. going treatment (such as beating, striking or iubbing hard the diseased part of the body) "48 Reference to the application of 'Four Talents' by the medical practioners has again been made in the above cannon in connection with the vajinal treatment of the consort of king Vijaya ?) This practice proves conclusively the firm conviction of the Jaina fathers, in the efficacy of the 'Foui Talents' in professional success. "Business Talent" is also mentioned in Karakanda Cariu as a basis of professional success "Who charmed the king by his business-abılıty," intelligence or specific talent as the basis of occupational or vocational selection has been much more clearly advocated in the wiitings of subsequent Hindu writers We quote below to substantiate our statement "When they heard this speech of the kings, one of them said-'I am Pañchaphuttika by name, a sudra , I possess a peculiar lalent or I weave every day five pairs of gai ment":1
47 Kathakoşa, p 104 48 The Vivagasuyam, p 96 49 Ibid, p 144 50. Muni Kanakamara, Karakanda Cariu, ti by Hırālal Jain, p. 190. 51. Kathāsarit Ságara, vol I, p. 449.
