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Saṃyutta Nikāya
4. Saḷāyatana Vagga
37. Mātugāma Saṃyutta
1. Paṭhama Peyyāla 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
1. First Repetition

Sutta 1

Manāpā Amanāpā (aka Mātu-Gāma) Suttaṃ

Charming and Not Charming

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:

"Possessed of five qualities, Brethren,
woman is altogether without charm for a man.

What five?

She is not beauteous in form,
not possessed of wealth,
not moral,
she is slack,
she gets no offspring.

Possessed of these five qualities, Brethren,
a woman is altogether without charm for a man.

 

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Possessed of five qualities, Brethren,
woman is altogether charming to a man.

What five?

She is beauteous in form,
possessed of wealth,
moral,
vigorous
and gets offspring.

Possessed of these five qualities, Brethren,
a woman is altogether charming to a man."


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