[389] The Blessed One said this: "Bhikkhus, once in the past there was a cowherd of Magadha, foolish by nature, who in the last month of the rainy season, in the autumn time, without examining the near shore of the river Gaṅgā and without examining the far shore, drove his cattle across at a place that was not a ford, to the northern shore in the land of the Videhans. Then, bhikkhus, the cattle bunched together in a circle in mid-stream of the river Gaṅgā and right there met with calamity and disaster. Why was that? Because, bhikkhus, that cowherd of Magadha, foolish by nature, in the last month of the rainy season, in the autumn time, without examining the near shore of the river Gaṅgā and without examining the far shore, drove his cattle across at a place that was not a ford, to the northern shore in the land of the Videhans. So too, bhikkhus, whatever ascetics or brahmins are unskilled in this world, unskilled in the other world, unskilled in Māra's domain (māradheyya), unskilled in what is beyond Māra's domain, unskilled in Death's domain (maccudheyya), unskilled in what is beyond Death's domain — for those who think them worth listening to and worth placing faith in, that will be for their harm and suffering (dukkha) for a long time."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.