Tracing the path for the source of a golden current he found, he came across a practitioner of austerities, Gyoei-koji (a lay Buddhist, Gyoei) intently praying to Senju Kannon in a white robe, who was confining himself to the mountain to practice religious austerities under the waterfall.
金色の水流を見出した賢心がその源をたどっていくと、そこにはこの山に篭って滝行を行い、千手観音を念じ続けている行叡居士（ぎょうえいこじ）という白衣の修行者がいた。