"Good, good, bhikkhus! It is good that you understand the Dhamma taught by me in this way. This indeed is more, bhikkhus: the blood that has flowed and streamed from you as your heads were cut off while you were running on and wandering through this long course — not the water in the four great oceans. For a long time, bhikkhus, when you were cows, existing as cows, the blood that flowed and streamed as your heads were cut off [is more] — not the water in the four great oceans. For a long time, bhikkhus, when you were buffaloes, existing as buffaloes, the blood that flowed and streamed as your heads were cut off [is more].¹ For a long time, bhikkhus, when you were sheep, existing as sheep … when you were goats, existing as goats … when you were deer, existing as deer … when you were pigs, existing as pigs … when you were chickens, existing as chickens … For a long time, bhikkhus, when you were seized as 'village-plundering bandits' and your heads were cut off, the blood that flowed and streamed [is more]. For a long time, bhikkhus, when you were seized as 'highway bandits' … when you were seized as 'adulterers' and your heads were cut off, the blood that flowed and streamed [is more] — not the water in the four great oceans. For what reason? Because, bhikkhus, this saṃsāra is without discoverable beginning … enough to be liberated."
¹ [Siam edition footnote: In the Burmese (ม.) and European/PTS (ยุ.) editions, "bhikkhave" is absent here.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.