The Spider’s Thread
soそこで Kandata犍陀多 (topic)は loud大きな voice声 (object)を raising出して、 hey「こら、 you sinners罪人ども。 thisこの spider’s thread蜘蛛の糸 (topic)は mine己 ofの possessionもの isだ (emphasis)ぞ。 you lotお前たち (topic)は on earth一体 whom誰 ofに asking尋いて、 climbingのぼって came来た。 get down下りろ。 get down下りろ。」 (quote)と shouted喚きました。
So Kandata cried in a loud voice: “Hey, you sinners! This spider’s thread is mine! Who on earth gave you leave to climb it? Get down! Get down!”
thatその very instant途端 isで (polite)ございます。 now今 untilまで nothing at all何とも was wrong withなかった spider’s thread蜘蛛の糸 (subject)が、 suddenly急に Kandata犍陀多 (subject)の danglingぶら下って beingいる place所 fromから、 snapぷつり (adv.)と sound音 (object)を making立てて broke断れました。 and soですから Kandata犍陀多 tooも was done forたまりません。 ahあっ (quote)と saying云う moment間 evenも withoutなく wind風 (object)を cutting切って、 a top独楽 ofの mannerよう likeに round and roundくるくる spinningまわり whileながら、 before one’s eyes見る見る midst中 inに darkness暗 ofの depths底 intoへ、 headlongまっさかさまに falling落ちて ended upしまいました。
That very instant it happened. The spider’s thread, which until then had had nothing wrong with it, suddenly broke with a snap just where Kandata hung. There was no saving him. Before he could even cry out, cutting the wind, spinning round and round like a top, he plunged headlong, in the blink of an eye, into the depths of the darkness.
behind後 inに (topic)は onlyただ Paradise極楽 ofの spider’s thread蜘蛛の糸 (subject)が、 glitteringきらきら (adv.)と thinly細く gleaming光り whileながら、 moon月 neitherも stars星 norも withoutない sky空 ofの midway中途 inに、 short短く hanging垂れて beingいる onlyばかり (copula)で is (polite)ございます。
Afterward, only the spider’s thread of Paradise remained, glittering thin, hanging short in a sky without moon or stars.
Lord Buddha御釈迦様 (topic)は Paradise極楽 ofの lotus pond蓮池 ofの edgeふち atに standing立って、 thisこの whole affair一部始終 (object)を intentlyじっと watching見て was (honorific)いらっしゃいました butが、 presentlyやがて Kandata犍陀多 (subject)が Pool of Blood血の池 ofの bottom底 toへ a stone石 ofの mannerよう likeに sinking沈んで ended upしまいます whenと、 sorrowful悲しそうな face (hon.)御顔 (object)を making (hon.)なさり whileながら、 againまた leisurelyぶらぶら walking (hon.)御歩き (to)に doingなり began始めました。 himself自分 onlyばかり Hell地獄 fromから to escapeぬけ出そう (quote)と tryingする、 Kandata犍陀多 ofの merciless無慈悲な heart心 (subject)が、 andそうして thatその heart心 fitting相当な punishment罰 (object)を receivingうけて、 former元 ofの Hell地獄 intoへ falling落ちて ended upしまった (nominalizer)の (subject)が、 Lord Buddha御釈迦様 ofの eyes (hon.)御目 fromから seeing見る whenと、 wretched浅間しく must have seemed (hon.)思召された (nominalizer)の (copula)で probably (polite)ございましょう。
Lord Buddha stood at the edge of the lotus pond of Paradise and watched all that happened; and presently, when Kandata had sunk like a stone to the bottom of the Pool of Blood, he took on a sorrowful face and began strolling again. Kandata’s merciless heart, that would save itself alone from Hell — and its falling, in fitting punishment, back into the old Hell — must have seemed wretched indeed, seen through Lord Buddha’s eyes.
butしかし Paradise極楽 ofの lotus pond蓮池 ofの lotuses蓮 (topic)は、 not in the least少しも suchそんな things事 aboutに (topic)は concern頓着 have no (polite)致しません。 thoseその jewel玉 (adj.)の likeような white白い flowers花 (topic)は、 Lord Buddha御釈迦様 ofの feet (hon.)御足 ofの aroundまわり atに、 swayingゆらゆら calyxes萼 (object)を stirring動かして、 theirその centerまん中 inに beingある golden金色 (adj.)の stamens蕊 fromから (topic)は、 indescribably何とも inexpressible云えない fine好い fragrance匂 (subject)が、 ceaselessly絶間なく surroundingsあたり toへ overflowing溢れて is (polite)居ります。 Paradise極楽 tooも alreadyもう noon午 toに near近く has drawnなった (nominalizer)の (copula)で probably (polite)ございましょう。
But the lotuses of the lotus pond of Paradise are not in the least concerned with such things. Those jewel-like white flowers sway their calyxes about Lord Buddha’s feet, and from the golden stamens at their centers an indescribably fine fragrance flows ceaselessly over the surroundings. In Paradise, too, it must already be drawing near noon.
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