However, it is said that several men started to fight over her, which drove her to drown herself in a cove (which spread around the present Mama-gawa River) of Mama.
だが、男達は手児奈を巡り再び争いを起こし、これを厭って真間の入り江（現在の真間川付近に広がっていた）に入水したと伝えられている。