A monk or a nun should not resolve to go where they will hear sounds of a Mridanga, Nandimridanga, or Ghallari, or any such-like various sounds of drums.
If a monk or a nun hear any sounds, viz. of the Vina, Vipamki, Vadvisaka, Tunaka, Panaka, Tumbavinika, or Dhamkuna, they should not resolve to go where they will hear any such-like various sounds of stringed instruments.
The same precepts apply to sounds of kettledrums, viz. of the Tala, Lattiya, Gohiya, or Kirikiriya;
Also to sounds of wind instruments, viz. the conch, flute, Kharamukhi, or Piripiriya.
A monk or a nun should not, for the sake of hearing sounds, go to walls or ditches, &c. (see II, 3, 3, sections 1 and 2);
Nor to marshes, pasture grounds, thickets, woods, strongholds in woods, mountains, strongholds in mountains;
Nor to villages, towns, markets, or a capital, hermitages, cities, halting-places for caravans;
Nor to gardens, parks, woods, forests, temples, assembly halls, wells;
Nor to towers, pathways, doors, or town gates; Nor where three or four roads meet, nor to courtyards or squares; (1o)
Nor to stables (or nests) of buffaloes, cattle, horses, elephants, &c. (see 10, section 12);
Nor to places where buffaloes, bulls, horses, &c., fight;
Nor to places where herds of cattle, horses, or elephants are kept;
Nor to places where story-tellers or acrobats perform, or where continuously story-telling, dramatical plays, singing, music, performance on the Vina, beating of time, playing on the Turya, clever playing on the Pataha is going on;
Nor to places where quarrels, affrays, riots, conflicts between two kingdoms, anarchical or revolutionary disturbances occur;
Nor to places where a young well-attended girl, well-attired and well-ornamented, is paraded, or where somebody is led to death.
A monk or a nun should not, for the sake of hearing sounds, go to places where there are many great temptations, viz. where many cars, chariots, Mlekkhas, or foreigners meet.
A monk or a nun should not, for the sake of hearing sounds, go to great festivals where women or men, old, young, or middle-aged ones are well-dressed and ornamented, sing, make music, dance, laugh, play, sport, or give, distribute, portion or parcel out plenty of food, drink, dainties, and spices.
A monk or a nun should not like or love, desire for, or be enraptured with, sounds of this or the other world, heard or unheard ones, seen or unseen ones.
