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Saɱyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
37. Mātugāma Saɱyutta
3. Tatiya Vagga

The Book of the Kindred Sayings
4. The Book Called the Saḷāyatana-Vagga
Containing Kindred Sayings on the 'Six-Fold Sphere' of Sense and Other Subjects
37. Kindred Sayings about Womankind
3. Third Chapter

Sutta 25

Visāradā Suttaɱ

Confident

Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids

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[165]

[1] Thus have I heard:

The Exalted One once addressed the brethren, saying:

"Brethren."

"Lord," responded those brethren to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One thus spake:

"There are these five powers in a woman, brethren.

What five?

The power of beauty,[1]
the power of wealth,
the power of kin,
the power of sons,[2]
the power of virtue.

These are the five.

Possessed of these five powers, Brethren,
womenfolk dwell at home in confidence."

 


[1] Rūpa = rūpa-sampatti.

[2] Puttā. Daughters are not welcomed in Indian families. The word, however, may be rendered by 'children.'


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