法苑珠林 11.20

11.20

又新婆沙論云。佛為菩薩時。厭老病死。出劫比羅伐窣堵城求無上智。時淨飯王遣釋種五人隨逐給侍。二是母親。三是父親。母親二人執受樂行得淨。父親三人執苦行得淨。當於菩薩修苦行時。母親二人心不忍可。即便捨去。菩薩後知苦行非道。捨而受食羹飯蘇乳。以油塗身習處中行。父親三人咸謂。菩薩狂亂失志。亦復捨去。後世尊成佛即作是念。彼皆是我父母親族。先來恭敬供養於我。今欲酬報為何所在。天即白言。今在婆羅痆斯國仙人鹿苑（廣事如前）。

The New Mahāvibhāṣā-śāstra also states: When the Buddha was a bodhisattva, he grew weary of old age, sickness, and death, and left the city of Kapilavastu to seek unexcelled wisdom. At that time, King Śuddhodana sent five members of the Śākya clan to follow and attend upon him. Two were maternal relatives, and three were paternal relatives. The two maternal relatives held that purity was attained through the practice of pleasure; the three paternal relatives held that purity was attained through ascetic practices. When the Bodhisattva was practicing austerities, the two maternal relatives could not bear it in their hearts, and so they departed. Later, the Bodhisattva realised that austerities were not the Way; he abandoned them, accepted food such as thick gruel, rice, ghee, and milk, anointed his body with oil, and adopted the middle practice. The three paternal relatives all thought: "The Bodhisattva has gone mad and lost his purpose," and they too abandoned him. Later, when the World-Honoured One attained Buddhahood, he had this thought: "They were all my parents' relatives who previously showed me reverence and made offerings to me. Where are they now that I wish to repay them?" A deva reported to him: "They are now in the country of Vārāṇasī, in the Ṛṣipatana Deer Park" (the detailed account is as related before).