Dhammapada 3.9.p4

3.9.p4

Ānandattheropi kappasatasahassaṃ pūritapāramī ariyasāvako saṃsāre saṃsaranto ekasmiṃ attabhāve kammārakule nibbatto. Paradārakammaṃ katvā niraye paccitvā pakkāvasesena cuddasasu attabhāvesu purisassa pādaparicārikā itthī ahosi, sattasu attabhāvesu bījuddharaṇaṃ pāpuṇi. Itthiyo pana dānādīni puññāni katvā itthibhāve chandaṃ virājetvā, ‘‘idaṃ no puññaṃ purisattabhāvapaṭilābhāya saṃvattatū’’ti cittaṃ adhiṭṭhahitvā kālaṃ katvā purisattabhāvaṃ paṭilabhanti, patidevatā hutvā sāmike sammāpaṭipattivasenāpi purisattabhāvaṃ paṭilabhanteva.

years, and upon resuming human estate are reborn as women during a hundred successive states of existence. For even the Elder Ānanda, who fulfilled the Perfections for a hundred thousand cycles of time and was a Noble Disciple, reborn as a blacksmith in a certain state of existence, as he passed from one state of existence to another in the round of existences, sinned with the wife of another man. As a result he suffered torment in Hell, and thereafter, because the fruit of his evil deed was not yet exhausted, he was obliged to spend fourteen existences as the wife of another man, and seven existences in addition, before the effect of his evil deed was completely exhausted. On the other hand women, by bestowing alms and performing other works of merit, by putting away desire to continue in existence longer as women, by forming the resolution, “May this work of merit of ours avail to procure for us rebirth as men,” obtain rebirth as men after death. Likewise wives who conduct themselves properly towards their husbands obtain rebirth as men. But this treasurer’s son, having unwisely set his thought on the Elder, was in that very existence transformed into a woman.)