Endowed with Three

1. At one time the Blessed One was living in the squirrels' sanctuary in the bamboo grove in Rajagaha.

2. The Blessed One addressed the monks from there: “Monks, most women endowed with three things, after death meet loss, go to a bad state, to decrease and are reborn in hell. What three?

3. “Monks, the woman when of tender age has a mind overcome by stains of miserliness, in middle age with a mind overcome by selfishness and during her last days has a mind overcome by sensual greed.

4. “Monks, most women endowed with these three things, after death meet loss, go to a bad state, to decrease, are reborn in hell.”