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The Related Suttas Collection 37.28
၃၊ ဗလဝဂ္ဂ
3. Powers
ဧကသုတ္တ
One
“ဧကေန စ ခေါ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, ဗလေန သမန္နာဂတော ပုရိသော မာတုဂါမံ အဘိဘုယျ ဝတ္တတိ၊ ကတမေန ဧကေန ဗလေန? ဣဿရိယဗလေန အဘိဘူတံ မာတုဂါမံ နေဝ ရူပဗလံ တာယတိ, န ဘောဂဗလံ တာယတိ, န ဉာတိဗလံ တာယတိ, န ပုတ္တဗလံ တာယတိ, န သီလဗလံ တာယတီ”တိ၊
“Bhikkhus, when a man has one power he has a female under his mastery. What one power? The power of authority. Mastered by this, a female’s powers of attractiveness, wealth, relatives, children, and ethical behavior do not avail her.”
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