883
A monk or a nun should not resolve to go where they will hear sounds of a Mridanga, Nandimi-mridanga, or Ghallarli [different kinds of drums], or any such-like various sounds of drums.

884
If a monk or a nun hear any sounds, viz. of the Vina, Vipamki, Vadvisaka, Tunaka, Panaka, Tumba-viniki, or Dhamkuna, they should not resolve to go where they will hear any such-like various sounds of stringed instruments.

885
The same precepts apply to sounds of kettledrums, viz. of the Tala, Lattiya, Gohiya, or Kirikiriya;

886
Also to sounds of wind instruments, viz. the conch, flute, Kharamukhi, or Piripiriya.

887
A monk or a nun should not, for the sake of hearing sounds, go to walls or ditches.

888
Nor to marshes, pasture grounds, thickets, woods, strongholds in woods, mountains, strongholds in mountains;

889
Nor to villages, towns, markets, or a capital, hermitages, cities, halting-places for caravans;

890
Nor to gardens, parks, woods, forests, temples, assembly halls, wells;

891
Nor to towers, pathways, doors, or town gates;

892
Nor where three or four roads meet, nor to courtyards or squares;

893
Nor to stables (or nests) of buffaloes, cattle, horses, elephants.

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894
Nor to places where buffaloes, bulls, horses, fight;

895
Nor to places where herds of cattle, horses, or elephants are kept;

896
Nor to places where story-tellers or acrobats perform, or where continuously story-telling, dramatical plays, singing, music, performance on the Vini, beating of time, playing on the Turya, clever playing on the Pataha is going on;

897
Nor to places where quarrels, affrays, riots, conflicts between two kingdoms, anarchical or revolutionary disturbances occur;

898
Nor to places where a young well-attended girl, well-attired and well-ornamented, is paraded, or where somebody is led to death.

899
A monk or a nun should not, for the sake hearing sounds, go to places where there are many great temptations, viz. where many cars, chariots, Mlekkhas, or foreigners meet.

900
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 welldressed and ornamented, sing, make music, dance, laugh, play, sport, or give, distribute, portion or parcel out plenty of food, drink, dainties, and spices.

901
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.

902
This is the whole duty.

903
Thus I say.

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