Translator Reviews ( Japanese → English )
Rating: 52 / 0 Reviews / 06 Oct 2010 at 22:15
御釈迦様は地獄の容子を御覧になりながら、この陀多には蜘蛛を助けた事があるのを御思い出しになりました。そうしてそれだけの善い事をした報には、出来るなら、この男を地獄から救い出してやろうと御考えになりました。幸い、側を見ますと、翡翠のような色をした蓮の葉の上に、極楽の蜘蛛が一匹、美しい銀色の糸をかけて居ります。御釈迦様はその蜘蛛の糸をそっと御手に御取りになって、玉のような白蓮の間から、遥か下にある地獄の底へ、まっすぐにそれを御下しなさいました。
While watching the state of things in Hell, the Buddha remembered that this man Kandata had saved the spider. And he thought that if it were possible, he would save this man from Hell using just this one good deed Kandata had performed. Fortunately, when the Buddha looked to the side, there was a spider of paradise upon the jade-like leaves of the lotus flowers, and it was spinning a beautiful silver thread. The Buddha took that spider's thread gently in his hand, and lowered it directly between the jewel-like white lotuses into the distant bottom of Hell.