Needless to say, the tale of 'Ashoka the Great of India' among all those legendary stories is a pretext added by the posterity, and a generally-accepted theory is that this pagoda was erected by settlers from Chosun Peninsula around the beginning of the Nara period (the seventh century).
以上の伝承のうち、「インドの阿育王」云々が後世の仮託であることは言うまでもなく、件の石塔は、実際には奈良時代前期（7世紀）頃に、朝鮮半島系の渡来人によって建立されたとみるのが通説である。