It is considered that, in addition, the following legend was added which was affected by the filial ethics of Confucianism: Mokuren Sonja held a memorial service for people and priests to relieve his dead mother.
それに、儒教の孝の倫理の影響を受けて成立した、目連尊者の亡母の救いのための衆僧供養という伝説が付加されたのであろう。