Saṁyutta Nikāya:
IV. Saḷāyatana Vagga
37: Mātugāma Saṁyutta
37: Kindred Sayings about Womankind
Suttas 25-34
Sutta 25
Visāradā Suttaṁ
Confident
[1]Thus have I heard:
The Exalted One once addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren."
"Lord," responded those brethren to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One thus spoke:
"There are these five powers in a woman, brethren.
What five?
The power of beauty,1
the power of wealth,
the power of kin,
the power of sons,2
the power of virtue.
These are the five.
Possessed of these five powers, Brethren,
womenfolk dwell at home in confidence.
1 Rūpa = rūpa-sampatti.
2 Puttā. Daughters are not welcomed in Indian families. The word, however, may be rendered by 'children.'