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Numbered Discourses 5.229
၂၃၊ ဒီဃစာရိကဝဂ္ဂ
23. Long Wandering
ပဌမကဏှသပ္ပသုတ္တ
Black Snakes (1st)
“ပဉ္စိမေ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, အာဒီနဝါ ကဏှသပ္ပေ၊ ကတမေ ပဉ္စ? အသုစိ, ဒုဂ္ဂန္ဓော, သဘီရု, သပ္ပဋိဘယော, မိတ္တဒုဗ္ဘီ၊ ဣမေ ခေါ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, ပဉ္စ အာဒီနဝါ ကဏှသပ္ပေ၊
“Bhikkhus, there are these five drawbacks of a black snake. What five? It’s filthy, stinking, cowardly, frightening, and treacherous. These are the five dangers of a black snake.
ဧဝမေဝံ ခေါ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, ပဉ္စိမေ အာဒီနဝါ မာတုဂါမေ၊ ကတမေ ပဉ္စ? အသုစိ, ဒုဂ္ဂန္ဓော, သဘီရု, သပ္ပဋိဘယော, မိတ္တဒုဗ္ဘီ၊ ဣမေ ခေါ, ဘိက္ခဝေ, ပဉ္စ အာဒီနဝါ မာတုဂါမေ”တိ၊
In the same way there are five drawbacks of a female. What five? She’s filthy, stinking, cowardly, frightening, and treacherous. These are the five drawbacks of a female.”
နဝမံ၊
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