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Hard to Understand: a past life story

Khuddaka Nikāya
7. Itthivagga
Durājānajātaka
Minor Collection
7. Women
Hard to Understand: a past life story
Khuddaka Nikāya
7. Itthivagga
Durājānajātaka
Hard to Understand: a past life story

“Think’st thou.”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about a lay-brother. Tradition says that there dwelt at Savatthi a lay-brother, who was stablished in the Three Gems and the Five Commandments, a devout lover of the Buddha, the Doctrine and the Brotherhood. But his wife was a sinful and wicked woman. On days when she did wrong, she was as meek as a slave-girl bought for a hundred pieces; whilst on days when she did not do wrong, she played my lady, passionate and tyrannical. The husband could not make her out. She worried him so much that he did not go to wait on the Buddha.

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Hard to Understand: a past life story
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4. Durājānajātaka
Hard to Understand: a past life story4. Durājānajātaka

Do not rejoice, “She loves me,”*When a wife has been good, she expects her husband to be nice to her; but when she has been bad, she is nice to him. The complexity of these behaviors is evidently too much for her husband, who seeks counsel for his confusion. Rather than make an effort to understand his wife, he is advised to simply ignore her feelings.nor lament, “She loves me not.”The mood of women is hard to understand,*Thīnaṁ is genitive plural, glossed itthīnaṁ. | The Dhamma is also “hard to understand” (Snp 3.12:59.1).like the track of fish in water.

Mā su nandi icchati maṁ, mā su soci na micchati; *na micchati → na icchati (bj, sya1ed, sya2ed, pts-vp-pli1)Thīnaṁ bhāvo durājāno, macchassevodake gatan”ti.

Do not rejoice, “She loves me,”*When a wife has been good, she expects her husband to be nice to her; but when she has been bad, she is nice to him. The complexity of these behaviors is evidently too much for her husband, who seeks counsel for his confusion. Rather than make an effort to understand his wife, he is advised to simply ignore her feelings.
Mā su nandi icchati maṁ,
nor lament, “She loves me not.”
mā su soci na micchati; *na micchati → na icchati (bj, sya1ed, sya2ed, pts-vp-pli1)
The mood of women is hard to understand,*Thīnaṁ is genitive plural, glossed itthīnaṁ. | The Dhamma is also “hard to understand” (Snp 3.12:59.1).
Thīnaṁ bhāvo durājāno,
like the track of fish in water.
macchassevodake gatan”ti.

Do not rejoice, “She loves me,”*When a wife has been good, she expects her husband to be nice to her; but when she has been bad, she is nice to him. The complexity of these behaviors is evidently too much for her husband, who seeks counsel for his confusion. Rather than make an effort to understand his wife, he is advised to simply ignore her feelings.Mā su nandi icchati maṁ, nor lament, “She loves me not.”mā su soci na micchati; *na micchati → na icchati (bj, sya1ed, sya2ed, pts-vp-pli1)The mood of women is hard to understand,*Thīnaṁ is genitive plural, glossed itthīnaṁ. | The Dhamma is also “hard to understand” (Snp 3.12:59.1).Thīnaṁ bhāvo durājāno, like the track of fish in water.macchassevodake gatan”ti.

Durājānajātakaṁ catutthaṁ.

Durājānajātakaṁ catutthaṁ.

Durājānajātakaṁ catutthaṁ.