ग्राम्यगीतं न शृणुयाद् यतिर्वनचर: क्वचित् । शिक्षेत हरिणाद् बद्धान्मृगयोर्गीतमोहितात् ॥ १७ ॥
grāmya-gītaṁ na śṛṇuyād yatir vana-caraḥ kvacit śikṣeta hariṇād baddhān mṛgayor gīta-mohitāt
- grāmya
- relating to sense gratification
- gītam
- songs
- na
- not
- śṛṇuyāt
- he should hear
- yatiḥ
- a saintly mendicant
- vana
- in the forest
- caraḥ
- moving
- kvacit
- ever
- śikṣeta
- one should learn
- hariṇāt
- from the deer
- baddhāt
- bound up
- mṛgayoḥ
- of the hunter
- gīta
- by the song
- mohitāt
- bewildered
A saintly person dwelling in the forest in the renounced order of life should never listen to songs or music promoting material enjoyment. Rather, a saintly person should carefully study the example of the deer, who is bewildered by the sweet music of the hunter’s horn and is thus captured and killed.