This story is described in the volume 24 of Konjaku Monogatari shu (the Tale of Times Now Past) and also in the records of ancient matters that was reported in the later age, and the one written in the records of ancient matters is said to be more precise when compared with that in Nihongi Ryaku.
この話は今昔物語集・巻24や、後世の古事談にも載っているが、日本紀略と突き合わせると古事談の方がまだ正確と言われる。