[306] Truly, friend Puṇṇamukha, by twenty-five points is a woman to be known as corrupt: she praises her husband's absence from home; when he is away she does not think of him; when he has come home she does not welcome him; she speaks his dispraise; she does not speak his praise; she works what is harmful to him; she does not work what is beneficial to him; she does for him what ought not to be done; she does not do for him what ought to be done; she sleeps fully clothed; she lies down with her face turned away; she is given to tossing and turning; she is given to fretting; she heaves long sighs; she complains of pain; she goes frequently to pass excrement and urine; she behaves contrarily; on hearing the voice of another man she pricks up her ears; she makes away with his wealth; she forms intimacy with the neighbours; she is one whose feet are ever out of doors; she is a wanderer of the streets; she is unfaithful, without respect for her husband, corrupt in mind and purpose; she stands constantly at the door; she displays her armpits, her limbs, her breasts; she goes about gazing this way and that. By these twenty-five points, truly, friend Puṇṇamukha, is a woman to be known as corrupt.
And on this there is this further saying:
She praises his absence from home;
she grieves not over his departure;
seeing her husband come home,
she gives him no welcome;
she never speaks his praise —
these are the marks of a corrupt woman.
Unrestrained, she works what is harmful to him,
and, doing what ought not to be done, she lets his good decline;
she sleeps fully clothed, her face turned away —
these are the marks of a corrupt woman.
She is given to tossing and turning, and to fretting;
she heaves long sighs, complaining of pain;
she goes frequently to pass excrement and urine —
these are the marks of a corrupt woman.
She behaves contrarily, doing what ought not to be done;
she listens intently to the voice of another man speaking;
she makes away with his wealth and forms intimacies —
these are the marks of a corrupt woman.
The wealth won with difficulty, brought home with toil,
the riches amassed with pain — she brings to ruin;
and she forms intimacy with the neighbours —
these are the marks of a corrupt woman.
Her feet ever out of doors, a wanderer of the streets,
her mind constantly corrupted against her husband,
she is unfaithful, devoid of respect —
these are the marks of a corrupt woman.
Again and again she stands at the doorway,
displaying her breasts and her armpits;
with a wavering mind she gazes this way and that —
these are the marks of a corrupt woman.
All rivers run a winding course;
all forests are but made of wood;
all women would work evil,
when a sheltered spot is found.
If she might find an opportune moment or a place of secrecy,
or even find such a sheltered spot,
all women would surely work evil —
finding no other, even with a cripple.
In women, who make delight for men,
who are fickle of mind and not to be restrained,
even should they be givers of joy in every way,
one should place no trust: for women are even as a ford [open to all].
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.