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."
