mn86:3.1 Then the Buddha robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, entered Sāvatthī for alms.
mn86:3.2 Then, after the meal, on his return from almsround, he set his lodgings in order and, taking his bowl and robe, he walked down the road that led to Aṅgulimāla.
mn86:3.3 The cowherds, shepherds, farmers, and travelers saw him on the road,
mn86:3.4 and said to him,
mn86:3.5 “Don’t take this road, ascetic.
mn86:3.6 On this road there is a bandit named Aṅgulimāla. He is violent, bloody-handed, a hardened killer, merciless to living beings.
mn86:3.7 He has laid waste to villages, towns, and countries.
mn86:3.8 He is constantly murdering humans, and he wears their fingers as a necklace.
mn86:3.9 People travel along this road only after banding closely together in groups of ten, twenty, thirty, forty, or fifty.
mn86:3.10 Still they meet their end by Aṅgulimāla’s hand.”
mn86:3.11 But when they said this, the Buddha went on in silence.
mn86:3.12 For a second time …
mn86:3.13 and a third time, they urged the Buddha to turn back.