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Jātaka Stories of Past Lives 64
Ekakanipāta The Book of the Ones
Itthivagga Women
4. Durājānajātaka Hard to Understand: a past life story
Mā su nandi icchati maṁ, 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 soci na micchati; nor lament, “She loves me not.”
Thīnaṁ bhāvo durājāno, 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).
macchassevodake gatan”ti. like the track of fish in water.
Durājānajātakaṁ catutthaṁ.