Nanda Moeyya - Five Hundred and Fifty Prose Novels (Volume 24)

King Kunala Uo, holding the pole of the pole, was preaching about the sins related to women, and the audience was so dense that there was no space to listen - it was so dense.

"Oh... Phussa, I will continue to call you, "Mother of Brahmadatta."

"I will tell you the story," he began, and then he began to tell it.

Ancient... a time long gone.

After the King of Kosala had conquered the kingdom of Varanasi, he captured the queen of the King of Varanasi and made her his queen. The queen became pregnant by the King of Varanasi. After a certain period of time, she gave birth to a son.

The King of Kosala had no son, but he raised him with love, and when he reached adulthood, he made him ruler of his father's possessions, the kingdom of Varanasi.

Then the queen mother asked permission from the king of Kosala and stayed with her retinue at the village of Nigon, which was on the way to her son.

In that village of Nigon , there was a Brahmin youth named "Panchalasandha" who was very handsome. He also went to the queen and presented her with gifts and ornaments.

When the queen saw the young man Panchalasanda, she was immediately attracted to him and seduced him and committed immoral acts. She stayed there for two or three days and then went to visit her son, the king. When she returned, she committed immoral acts with the young man Panchalasanda again. After staying there for two or three days, she returned to the king of Kosala. From then on, the queen begged the king to go to her son and committed immoral acts in that village for a month and a half.

After King Kunala Uo had spoken about King Brahmadatta's mother,

Friend... Phussa, the five women I have just mentioned are not the only ones who commit evil deeds. Other women also commit evil deeds.

"Apu Pustha, women are like the earth. Just as the earth is equally attached to all things by desire, so women are equally attached to all men, whether lowly, middle, or high.

Women are like lions, for example. Just as lions, when they catch their prey, use their mouth, arms, and legs to catch them, so women, when they catch men, use their senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch...

Women are the snares of death. They are like a trap. They cause fear. They cause disaster. They cause disease. They kill and bind. They cling to the cave of the body. Do not associate with such women. The man who associates with them is the worst of men.

Women are like thieves. Just as thieves steal property, they take men to the realm of lust and plunder them. Women, like the poisoned juice of the moon, are filled with lust for other men, and they do not know what is right and what is wrong. They only commit adultery.

Women are like merchants. Merchants only speak of the praises of their goods, but they cover up their own faults and speak of their own praises. They are like bears, because they are easily changed and have a mind. They are like cobras with forked tongues, because they speak falsehoods and lies. They are like dunghills, because they cover themselves with clothes and ornaments, and so they are like planks of wood.

Women are like a pit filled with garbage. Just as a pit filled with garbage causes suffering to those who enter it, so they cause suffering to those who enter it. They are like a cesspool. Just as a cesspool cannot be filled with flowing water, so cannot be filled with these three things: fornication, childbirth, and adornment. They cannot be satisfied. Women are like the demon Rakkhotha. Just as the demon Rakkhotha cannot be satisfied with wealth and abandons it and longs for the flesh of the ants, so too women are not satisfied with wealth and abandons it and longs for the flesh of the ants.

Women are like Yama. Just as Yama does not spare anyone but leads them to the pit of death, so women do not spare any man but lead them to the pit of darkness by the power of their passions. They destroy virtue. After death, they lead them to hell. Just as fire does not discriminate between good and bad but consumes all things, so women do not discriminate between good and bad but cling to all men.

Just as rivers carry all things in their currents, so women have intercourse with all men. Just as the wind flies where it pleases, so women fly where it pleases. Just as the golden mountain Neru treats all the birds that come to it, so women treat all the men that come to it.

Just as the poisonous fruit, the ki'pakka, which resembles a mango, is full of form, smell, and taste, and kills those who eat it, so women are full of form, smell, taste, and touch, and they can cause the men they associate with to fall into a state of depravity.

Women commit wicked deeds by giving to others the wealth their husbands have earned through poverty and hardship. Oh... Phussa, please continue to listen.

There are four things in this world that should not be kept in someone else's house. They are:

(1) Cow

(2) Milking cow

(3) Train

(4) Wife...

These are four novels.

If you keep these four things in someone else's house, they will be of great use to you. Because when something happens, they will be useless. They will be destroyed.

For example, if a hired ox is kept in someone else's house, it will be destroyed by others. If a milking cow is kept, it will be destroyed by others milking it. If a vehicle is kept, it will be destroyed by others using it. If a wife is kept, it will be destroyed by others destroying it.

Friend... Utsā, please continue listening. There are "six unfulfilled things" in the world.

They are

(1) A bow without a bowstring.

(2) A wife living in someone else's house

(3) The boat on the other side

(4) A wagon train with a broken axle

(5) A friend who is far away