Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 226
delivering the suppliants, the glorious one, having taught again the
saint Jeta, and established the Bhikṣu Pūrṇa, once more proceeded on
his way.
16. Then the glorious one went on, protecting the merchant-caravans
by the stores of his own treasures from the troops of robbers, next he
went into the neighbourhood of Rājageha wandering with his
begging-vessel which had been given by the merchants. In the wood
called Veṇu, filled with Śāl trees, he ate an offering of food prepared
by the enriched robbers, and he received as mendicants five hundred
of them and gave them their begging-vessels and the other requisites.
17. At the invitation of Buddha’s son, Śuddhodana gave this message
to his envoys Chandaka and Udāyin, ‘Thy father and mother, some
the hope of seeing thee, under the idea that thou art devoted to the
world’s salvation; what shall I tell them’ They two went, and
reverentially saluting the Buddha in the vihara called Veṇu, they told
him the message with their eyes filled with tears.
18. Chandaka and Udāyin accepted his counsel, and, being delighted
at the mighty power of Buddha, became great ascetics; and the great
Jina took them with him and proceeded from that wood with the
disciples, the mendicants, and the saints. Going on from place to
place, and dwelling in each for a while and conferring deliverance
and confirming the disciples, the mendicants, and the Arhats, he at