27(7)Powers(1)
"Bhikkhus,there are these eight powers.
What eight?
(1)The power of children is weeping;(2)the power of women is anger;
(3)the power of thieves is a weapon;(4)the power of kings is sovereignty;(5)the power of fools is to complain;(6)the power of the wise is to deliberate;
It seems that the two Pali words ujjhatti and nijjhatti are being intentionally played off against one another.Mp glosses ujjhattibala with ujjhanabala and explains:"For fools have only the power of complaining:'When that fellow said this and that,he said it to me,not to anyone else.'But [the wise]have the power of inference,of inferring what is beneficial and what is harmful: "This is not so,hence it is that.'"On nijjhatti and its verb,nijjhapeti, see 2:51.(7)the power of the learned is reflection;(8)the power of ascetics and brahmins is patience.
These are the eight powers."