Quoted By:
Ancient India:
Circa 300 BC-400 AD: The Jataka Tales (large collection of Buddhist stories in which Buddha recounts past lives on road to enlightenment)
>"Cursed be the dart of love that works men pain! Cursed be the land where women rule supreme! And cursed the fool that bows to woman’s sway!"
—Jataka 13
>"Such, we learn, is the wickedness of women. What crime will they not commit; and then, to deceive their husbands, what oaths will they not take--aye, in the light of day--that they did it not!
>So false-hearted are they! Therefore has it been said:—A sex composed of wickedness and guile, Unknowable; uncertain as the path
>Of fishes in the water,—womankind
>Hold truth for falsehood, falsehood for the truth!
>As greedily as cows seek pastures new,
>Women, unsated, yearn for mate on mate.
>As sand unstable, cruel as the snake,
>Women know all things; naught from them is hid!
—Jataka 62
>"For in days to come, women shall lust after men and strong drink and finery and gadding abroad and after the joys of this world. In their wickedness and profligacy these women shall drink strong drink with their paramours; they shall flaunt in garlands and perfumes and unguents; and heedless of even the most pressing of their household duties, they shall keep watching for their paramours, even at crevices high up in the outer wall; aye, they shall pound up the very seed-corn that should be sown on the morrow so as to provide good cheer;--in all these ways shall they plunder the store won by the hard work of their husbands in field and byre, devouring the poor men’s substance even as the hungry jackal under the bench ate up the rope of the rope-maker as he wove it.
—Jataka 77
>"Full of seductive wiles, deceitful all, They tempt the most pure-hearted to his fall.
>Down--down they sink: a man should flee afar from women, when he knows what kind they are. Whomso they serve, for gold or for desire,
>They burn him up like fuel in the fire."
— Jataka 263
