Regarding these two cases, "Yakushikyo Sutra" has a section to describe nine kinds of untimely death, the fourth is to be burned to death and the fifth is to drown, so the relation to the brief in Yakushi Nyorai can be suggested.
この2項も『薬師経』の9つの横死を述べる箇所に、第4は火に焼かれること、第5は水に溺れることとあり、薬師信仰との関連が指摘できる。