However, it is said that he was forced to bury the bell in the earth because the dolly to carry the bell was too heavy to be carried up a hill before the troops reached the capital of Kyoto, or that he brought the bell back to Kyoto and relied on Hokke-kyo Sutra (the Lotus Sutra) believed to be the most powerful of Sutras and a Nichiren prayer and made an offering of the bell to Myoman-ji Temple for Anchin and Kiyohime to be liberated from a grudge.
しかし、行軍の途中に京洛の手前で重い鐘を乗せた台車が坂を登りきれなかったため、やむなく鐘を土中に埋めたとも、そのまま京都に持ち帰り、安珍清姫の怨念解脱のために経力第一の法華経を頼って妙満寺に鐘を納めたともいわれている。