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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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[167]

[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


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