瑜伽論記 11.409

11.409

Next, regarding "the bodhisattva being by nature free from... up to committing uninterrupted karma": Jing states that although the gotra bodhisattva still transmigrates as an ordinary person, they do not give rise to fierce, coarse anger to commit the five uninterrupted karmas or embrace wrong views that sever wholesome roots. As for King Ajātaśatru killing his father, Devadatta causing blood to flow from the Buddha's body, and so forth, these are all long-practicing bodhisattvas who provisionally manifested as ordinary persons to attract and receive people who commit the five heinous sins and cause them to repent.