Saṃyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
37. Mātugāma Saṃyutta
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 31
Hetu Suttaṃ
Because of[1]
Translated by F. L. Woodward
Edited by Mrs. Rhys Davids
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[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,
the power of wealth,
the power of kin,
the power of sons,
the power of virtue.
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But it is not because of the power of beauty,
wealth,
kin,
or sons
that a woman is reborn after death
in the Happy Lot,
in the Heaven World,
when body breaks up.
It is because of virtue, Brethren,
that a woman is reborn after death
in the Happy Lot,
in the Heaven World,
when body breaks up.
Such, Brethren, are the five powers of womanfolk."
[1] Hetu
