Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c13.s3.49
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c13.s3.49
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c13.s3.49
Besides medicinal treatment, surgical operations also seem to have been carried out We read that once a fish bone (*maccha-kaṇṭaka*) stuck into the throat of a fisherman; the surgeons were called. They tried to extract the bone with an instrument (*salla*) and tried other means but could not succeed.⁷¹