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## The Sutra Kritanga Sutra
Just as in the world, one's own name is the first joy, and the second is the joy of one's own self, and so on, in the same way, a son is the ultimate cause of happiness for men. When a son is born, the various anxieties that men experience for his sake are described as follows: "Take this child, you." "I am busy with my karma, I have no time to take him." Or, "Leave him, abandon him, I don't even want to hear about him." Thus, a woman, filled with anger, speaks. "I carried this child in my womb for nine months, and you are afraid to hold him for a little while?" The example of a servant is applicable here. He obeys his master's orders, not out of his own will, but out of fear. Similarly, a man, being under the control of a woman, considers it a favor and is happy to obey her orders. As it is said:
"Whatever pleases me, she does it. She knows it or not, whatever she does is pleasing to me." (1)
"She gives her life to a beggar, she kills her own mother for him. What can't she give, what can't she do for a man who begs her?" (2)
"She gives him water for purification, she washes his feet. She even takes his phlegm. A man is under the control of women." (3)
Thus, for the sake of a son, or for any other reason, men are ordered like servants. And those who are able to raise their sons, they are the ones who are described as "son-raisers." Because of their obedience to all orders, some, due to delusion, become like camels, under the control of women, carrying the burden of their instructions, and thus lose their worldly and otherworldly happiness. (16)
**Note:** The translation preserves the Jain terms "karma" and "son-raisers." The numbers in parentheses refer to the verses quoted from the text.