Pali Canon Search

Linked Discourses · SN 37.4

  • Linked Discourses 37.4Saṁyutta Nikāya 37.4
  • 1. Abbreviated Texts1. Paṭhamapeyyālavagga

Three QualitiesTīhidhammehisutta

“Mendicants, when ladies have three qualities, when their body breaks up, after death, they are mostly reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.“Tīhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato mātugāmo yebhuyyena kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ nirayaṁ upapajjati. What three?Katamehi tīhi?

A lady lives at home with heart full of the stain of stinginess in the morning, jealousy in the afternoon, and sexual desire in the evening.Idha, bhikkhave, mātugāmo pubbaṇhasamayaṁ maccheramalapariyuṭṭhitena cetasā agāraṁ ajjhāvasati.

When ladies possess these three qualities, when their body breaks up, after death, they are mostly reborn in a place of loss, a bad place, the underworld, hell.”Imehi kho, bhikkhave, tīhi dhammehi samannāgato mātugāmo yebhuyyena kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ nirayaṁ upapajjatī”ti.

Similar passages elsewhere

Found by meaning, not by citation: the passages in other texts whose wording sits closest to a passage here.

  1. AN 3.129 With Anuruddha (1st) 0.64near 0.1Numbered Discourses 3.129 13. Kusinārā With Anuruddha (1st) Then Venerable Anuruddha went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him: “Sometimes, sir, with my clairvoyance that is purified and superhu…
  2. AN 5.3 Suffering 0.64near 0.1Numbered Discourses 5.3 1. Powers of a Trainee Suffering “Mendicants, when a mendicant has five qualities they live unhappily in this very life—with distress, anguish, and fever—and when the body breaks up, after death,…
  3. AN 6.75 Suffering 0.62near 0.1Numbered Discourses 6.75 8. Perfection Suffering “Mendicants, when a mendicant has six qualities they live unhappily in this very life—with distress, anguish, and fever—and when the body breaks up, after death, they can…
  4. AN 3.19 A Shopkeeper (1st) 0.53near 0.1In the same way, a mendicant with three qualities is able to acquire more skillful qualities or to increase the skillful qualities they’ve already acquired. What three? It’s when a mendicant carefully focuses on a medita…