Mastering

1. “Monks, these five are the confidences of the woman. What five? She is confident of form, of wealth, of relations, of sons and of virtues.

2. “Monks, the woman confident of these five, lives in the household mastering her master.”

3.”Monks, a man endowed with a single confidence governs the woman. What is that single confidence? It is supremacy.

4. “Monks, the woman governed by the power of supremacy cannot preserve her confidences of form, of wealth, of relations, of sons or of virtues.”