Dear Nina and Frank,

Nina's earlier A I,27 should refer to volume I page 27 of the PTS English print edition. It is a volume/page referencing system.

Nowadays, most students would use the more "user-friendly" universal subdivision/sutta referencing system. There are differences in how such a system is implemented, but the differences can be numerically resolved easily.

AN1.15.12 - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/9613

From AN1.15.12 to AN1.15.16, there are a total of 5 statements which describe what a woman may not become but a man may. These are 5 highest acclaimed positions/functions/roles in the Buddhist "universe". Such statements are based on the premise that there is a domineering gender in the society, and karma determines which gender one is born into.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Nina van Gorkom wrote:

I quoted from the S.N., not A.N. Samyutta Nikaaya IV, Sayings on Womankind, � 34.

Annotation: IV, 249, or XXXVII , III, 3, � 34.

> I could not find the [A 1.27] reference you specified at sutta central