The locals heard about this episode and started to believe that the dead man must have been a reincarnation of Daruma zenji; then the Prince Shotoku sculpted an image of Daruma and enshrined it at the site where Daruma-ji Temple currently stands.
これを知った里人は、あの異人は達磨禅師の生まれ変わりに相違ないと言い、聖徳太子が自ら刻んだ達磨像を祀ったのが達磨寺の始まりであるという。