[522] For a second time the cowherds, herdsmen, and farmers, running up, said this to the Blessed One: "Ascetic, do not take this road. On this road, ascetic, there is a bandit named Aṅgulimāla — fierce, bloody-handed, given over to killing and slaughter, merciless toward living beings. By him villages have been made villages no more, towns made towns no more, and districts made districts no more. Having slain human beings again and again, he wears a garland of their fingers. Men travel this road, ascetic, only after banding together in groups of ten, twenty, thirty, or forty; yet even they come to destruction at the hand of the bandit Aṅgulimāla." Then the Blessed One, remaining silent, went on.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.