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 28
Eka Suttaṃ
One
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 one power, Brethren,
a man continues to get the better of a woman.
What power?
By the power of authority.
Neither the power of her beauty,
nor her power of wealth,
nor her power of kin,
nor her power of sons,
nor her power of virtue
can avail[1] a woman
who is mastered by the power of authority.
[1] Tāyati
