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 32
Ṭhāna Suttaṃ
Condition[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 conditions, Brethren,
hard to be won
by a woman who has wrought no merit.
What five?
[168] She may wish:
'Oh that I may be reborn in a proper[2] family.'
That is the first condition
which is hard to be won
by a woman who has wrought no merit.
■
She may wish:
'Born in a proper family,
may I go (as wife) to a proper family.'
That, Brethren, is the second condition
which is hard to be won
by a woman who has wrought no merit.
■
She may wish:
'Born in a proper family,
gone (as wife) to a proper family,
may I dwell in the home
without a rival.'[3]
That, Brethren, is the third condition
which is hard to be won
by a woman who has wrought no merit.
■
She may wish:
'Born in a proper family,
gone (as wife) to a proper family,
dwelling in the home without a rival,
may I have a son.'
That, Brethren, is the fourth condition
which is hard to be won
by a woman who has wrought no merit.
■
She may wish:
'Born in a proper family,
gone (as wife) to a proper family,
dwelling in the home without a rival,
possessed of a son,
may I continue to have mastery over my husband.'
That, Brethren, is the fifth condition
which is hard to be won
by a woman who has wrought no merit.
Such, Brethren, are the five conditions
which are hard to be won
by a woman who has wrought no merit.
§
There are these five conditions, Brethren,
easily won
by a woman who has wrought merit.
What five?
She may wish:
'Oh that I may be reborn in a proper family.'
That is the first condition
easily won
by a woman who has wrought merit.
■
She may wish:
'Born in a proper family,
may I go (as wife) to a proper family.'
That, Brethren, is the second condition
easily won
by a woman who has wrought merit.
■
She may wish:
'Born in a proper family,
gone (as wife) to a proper family,
may I dwell in the home
without a rival.'
That, Brethren, is the third condition
easily won
by a woman who has wrought merit.
■
She may wish:
'Born in a proper family,
gone (as wife) to a proper family,
dwelling in the home without a rival,
may I have a son.'
That, Brethren, is the fourth condition
easily won
by a woman who has wrought merit.
■
She may wish:
'Born in a proper family,
gone (as wife) to a proper family,
dwelling in the home without a rival,
possessed of a son,
may I continue to have mastery over my husband.'
That, Brethren, is the fifth condition
easily won
by a woman who has wrought merit.
Such, Brethren, are the five conditions
which are easily won
by a woman who has wrought merit.
[1] Ṭhānaṃ
[2] Patirūpa.
[3] Asapattī, another wife.
