Verses on Dhamma 3.9.p3

3.9.p3

Atha naṃ manussā disvā, ‘‘amhākaṃ yānakassa pacchato pacchato anugacchati, mayaṃ ‘kassesā dārikā’ti taṃ na jānāmā’’ti vadiṃsu. Sāpi ‘‘tumhe attano yānakaṃ pājetha, ahaṃ padasā gamissāmī’’ti gacchantī aṅgulimuddikaṃ datvā ekasmiṃ yānake okāsaṃ kāresi. Manussā cintayiṃsu – ‘‘takkasilanagare amhākaṃ seṭṭhiputtassa bhariyā natthi, tassa ācikkhissāma, mahāpaṇṇākāro no bhavissatī’’ti. Te gehaṃ gantvā, ‘‘sāmi, amhehi tumhākaṃ ekaṃ itthiratanaṃ ānīta’’nti āhaṃsu. So taṃ sutvā taṃ pakkosāpetvā attano vayānurūpaṃ abhirūpaṃ pāsādikaṃ disvā uppannasineho gehe akāsi. Purisā hi itthiyo, itthiyo vā purisā abhūtapubbā nāma natthi. Purisā hi parassa dāresu aticaritvā kālaṃ katvā bahūni vassasatasahassāni niraye paccitvā manussajātiṃ āgacchantā attabhāvasate itthibhāvaṃ āpajjanti.

(For there are no men who have not, at some time or other, been women; and no women who have not, at some time or other, been men. For example, men who have sinned with the wives of other men are after death tormented in Hell for hundreds of thousands of