Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.2437

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In the Milinda³ the king mentions the story of Amarādevī having been left behind in the village while her husband was away on a journey, and of her resisting a temptation to be unfaithful to him. “If that be true, how,” asks the king, “could you justify the Buddha's statement⁴ that ‘all women will go wrong, failing others, even with a cripple’?” Nāgasena explains this by saying that Amarā did not sin because she had neither real secrecy nor opportunity nor the right-wooer !