About this point, Mujaku Dochu of the Rinzai sect said, after he mentioned that it was wrong to write Shuri as "修理," 'Legend holds that Daigen shuri was a lad (vocative) of Ashoka the Great of India and was a guardian of stupas constructed by Ashoka, and he came to Mt. Shoho in Mingzhou, China, by his divine power to look out over the whole land of China putting his hand over his eyes, and then Aikuo-ji Temple enshrined him as an earth deity.
この点について、臨済宗の無著道忠は、修利を修理とするのは間違いと指摘した上で「伝説では大権修利はインドの阿育王の郎子であり、阿育王の建てた舎利塔を守るものと言われ、その神力によって中国明州の招宝山に来たりて、手を額にかざし四百州を回望する、また阿育王寺でこれを祀り土地神とした。