Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN37: Connected Discourses on Women

SN37:26 Having Won Over

1"Bhikkhus, there are five powers of a woman … . as above … When a woman possesses these five powers, she dwells at home having won over her husband." [n.266] Sāmikaṃ pasayha agāraṃ ajjhāvasati. Spk glosses pasayha with abhibhavitvā, and in the next sutta abhibhuyya vattati with abhibhavati ajjhottharati. In this way the two become simply verbal variants on the same idea.

1"Pañcimāni, bhikkhave, mātugāmassa balāni. Katamāni pañca? Rūpabalaṁ, bhogabalaṁ, ñātibalaṁ, puttabalaṁ, sīlabalaṁ – imāni kho, bhikkhave, pañca mātugāmassa balāni. Imehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi balehi samannāgato mātugāmo sāmikaṁ pasayha agāraṁ ajjhāvasatī"ti.


Dutiyaṁ.

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