[523] For a third time, the cowherds, the herders of livestock, the farmers, and the travelers said this to the Blessed One: "Ascetic, do not take this road. On this road, ascetic, there is a bandit named Aṅgulimāla — violent, 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. Constantly murdering human beings, he wears a garland made of their fingers. Ascetic, men travel this road only after banding together in groups — ten men, twenty men, thirty men, even forty men; yet even they come to their end at the hand of the bandit Aṅgulimāla." When this was said, the Blessed One went on in silence.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.