Norinaga MOTOORI stated in his "Obarai no kotoba goshaku" (after Explication on the Words of the Great Purification) that the term refers to Oharae no kotoba itself.
本居宣長は『大祓詞後釈』で、「天津祝詞の太祝詞事」は大祓詞自体のことであるとする説を唱えた。