āvenika Sutta

There are five special (āvenika) woes which a woman has to undergo as distinct from a man:

• at a tender age she goes to her husband's family,

• leaving her relations;

• she is subject to menses;

• to pregnancy;

• to labour at child-birth;

• and she has to wait upon a man. S.iv.239.

Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from