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 1   5, 18| Blessed One preached, and the women having understood his~doctrine,
 2   5, 18|       Benares, were the first women who~became lay disciples
 3  11, 32|                               WOMEN IN THE SANGHA~ ~ YASODHARA
 4  11, 32|     Yasodhara, and many other women, went to the Tathagata entreating~
 5  11, 32|      that lurked in admitting~women to the Sangha, protested
 6  11, 32| thousand years it would, when women joined it, likely~decay
 7  11, 32|    the Blessed One thus: "Are women~competent, venerable Lord,
 8  11, 32|    The Blessed One declared: "Women are competent, Ananda, if~
 9  11, 32|       his mother. So,~Ananda, women may retire from household
10  11, 33|             ON CONDUCT TOWARD WOMEN~ ~ THE bhikkhus came to
11  11, 33|   Master, what conduct toward women dost thou prescribe~to the
12  13, 43|     all these worldly men and women trembling with anxiety,
13  13, 44|       from the~path of truth. Women who are in love, O disciples
14  14, 61| reception of all, for men and women, boys~and girls, the powerful
15  14, 76|  model for noblemen and noble women. Thou art of low caste,
16  16, 91|     union among those men and women who are anxious to walk
17  16, 92| indeed, is rare in the world. Women, as a rule, are~scant in