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7. Women

Dissatisfaction: a past life story

Khuddaka Nikāya
7. Itthivagga
Anabhiratijātaka
Minor Collection
7. Women
Dissatisfaction: a past life story
Khuddaka Nikāya
7. Itthivagga
Anabhiratijātaka
Dissatisfaction: a past life story

“Like highways.”—This story was told by the Master while at Jetavana, about just such another lay-brother as the last. This man, when on enquiry he assured himself of his wife’s misconduct, came to words with her, with the result that he was so upset that for seven or eight days he failed in his attendance. One day he came to the monastery, made his bow to the Blessed One and took his seat. Being asked why he had been absent for seven or eight days, he replied, “Sir, my wife has misconducted herself, and I have been so upset about her that I did not come.”

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Dissatisfaction: a past life story
5. Anabhiratijātaka
Dissatisfaction: a past life story
5. Anabhiratijātaka
Dissatisfaction: a past life story5. Anabhiratijātaka

Just like rivers and roads,*The story tells us that women are available to all, so the wise do not get upset when they are unfaithful. | Contrary to the story, studies consistently indicate that men cheat more than women.taverns, hotels, and pubs,*Compare SN 9.8.are those called women in the world.Sages do not get angry with them.*Nāsaṁ is na + āsaṁ, genitive plural feminine pronoun.

“Yathā nadī ca pantho ca, pānāgāraṁ sabhā papā; Evaṁ lokitthiyo nāma, nāsaṁ kujjhanti paṇḍitā”ti.

Just like rivers and roads,*The story tells us that women are available to all, so the wise do not get upset when they are unfaithful. | Contrary to the story, studies consistently indicate that men cheat more than women.
“Yathā nadī ca pantho ca,
taverns, hotels, and pubs,*Compare SN 9.8.
pānāgāraṁ sabhā papā;
are those called women in the world.
Evaṁ lokitthiyo nāma,
Sages do not get angry with them.*Nāsaṁ is na + āsaṁ, genitive plural feminine pronoun.
nāsaṁ kujjhanti paṇḍitā”ti.

Just like rivers and roads,*The story tells us that women are available to all, so the wise do not get upset when they are unfaithful. | Contrary to the story, studies consistently indicate that men cheat more than women.“Yathā nadī ca pantho ca, taverns, hotels, and pubs,*Compare SN 9.8.pānāgāraṁ sabhā papā; are those called women in the world.Evaṁ lokitthiyo nāma, Sages do not get angry with them.*Nāsaṁ is na + āsaṁ, genitive plural feminine pronoun.nāsaṁ kujjhanti paṇḍitā”ti.

Anabhiratijātakaṁ pañcamaṁ.

Anabhiratijātakaṁ pañcamaṁ.

Anabhiratijātakaṁ pañcamaṁ.