[790] "Sisters, suppose a skilled cattle-butcher or a cattle-butcher's apprentice, having slaughtered a cow, were to carve up the cow with a sharp butcher's knife — without damaging the inner mass of flesh and without damaging the outer mass of hide — and whatever inner connecting flesh, inner sinews, and inner ligaments were there, he would cut through, carve through, and slice all around just those with the sharp butcher's knife; and having cut through, carved through, and sliced all around, having stripped off the outer mass of hide, he were to cover that cow with that very same hide and say: 'This cow is joined to this hide just as before.' Sisters, would he, speaking thus, be speaking rightly?"
"No, venerable sir."
"For what reason?"
"Because, venerable sir, that skilled cattle-butcher or cattle-butcher's apprentice, having slaughtered a cow, might carve up the cow with a sharp butcher's knife — without damaging the inner mass of flesh and without damaging the outer mass of hide — and whatever inner connecting flesh, inner sinews, and inner ligaments were there, he would cut through, carve through, and slice all around just those with the sharp butcher's knife; and having cut through, carved through, and sliced all around, having stripped off the outer mass of hide, he might cover that cow with that very same hide; yet even though he should say: 'This cow is joined to this hide just as before,' still that cow is disjoined from that very hide."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.