sn42.2:1.1 At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.
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sn42.2:1.2 Then Tālapuṭa the dancing chief came up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him:
sn42.2:1.3 “Sir, I have heard that the dancers of the past who were tutors of tutors said:
sn42.2:1.4 ‘Suppose a dancer entertains and amuses people on a stage or at a festival with mixed truth and lies. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in the company of laughing gods.’
sn42.2:1.5 What does the Buddha say about this?”
sn42.2:1.6 “Enough, chief, let it be. Don’t ask me that.”
sn42.2:1.7 For a second time …
sn42.2:1.12 And for a third time Tālapuṭa said to the Buddha:
sn42.2:1.13 “Sir, I have heard that the dancers of the past who were tutors of tutors said:
sn42.2:1.14 ‘Suppose a dancer entertains and amuses people on a stage or at a festival with mixed truth and lies. When their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in the company of laughing gods.’
sn42.2:1.15 What does the Buddha say about this?”