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သံယုတ္တ နိကာယ ၃၇၊၃၁
The Related Suttas Collection 37.31
၃၊ ဗလဝဂ္ဂ
3. Powers
ဟေတုသုတ္တ
Cause
“ပဉ္စိမာနိ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, မာတုဂါမဿ ဗလာနိ၊ ကတမာနိ ပဉ္စ? ရူပဗလံ, ဘောဂဗလံ, ဉာတိဗလံ, ပုတ္တဗလံ, သီလဗလံ၊
“Bhikkhus, there are these five powers of a female. What five? Attractiveness, wealth, relatives, children, and ethical behavior.
န, ဘိက္ခဝေ, မာတုဂါမော ရူပဗလဟေတု ဝါ ဘောဂဗလဟေတု ဝါ ဉာတိဗလဟေတု ဝါ ပုတ္တဗလဟေတု ဝါ ကာယဿ ဘေဒါ ပရံ မရဏာ သုဂတိံ သဂ္ဂံ လောကံ ဥပပဇ္ဇတိ၊ သီလဗလဟေတု ခေါ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, မာတုဂါမော ကာယဿ ဘေဒါ ပရံ မရဏာ သုဂတိံ သဂ္ဂံ လောကံ ဥပပဇ္ဇတိ၊
It is not because of the powers of attractiveness, wealth, relatives, or children that females, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm. It is because of the power of ethical behavior that females, when their body breaks up, after death, are reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.
ဣမာနိ ခေါ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, ပဉ္စ မာတုဂါမဿ ဗလာနီ”တိ၊
These are the five powers of a female.”
သတ္တမံ၊
The authoritative text of the Saṁyutta Nikāya is the Pāli text. The English translation is provided as an aid to the study of the original Pāli text. [CREDITS »]
