魚をだまして一匹ずつ運んで食べようとした鶴の本生話で、最後にはだまそうとした蟹に殺されるという結末をもち、自分の企みが自分に跳ね返った仕立て屋を喩えるために説かれたもの

A birth-story of a crane who tricked fish into letting it carry and eat them, until a crab it tried to deceive killed it, told to illustrate a robe-maker’s trick that was turned back on him.

菩薩が魚の群れの長として、池のほとりで信心深いふりをする鶴について仲間に警告した本生話で、偽善者に関連して説かれたもの

A birth-story in which the Bodhisatta, as leader of a shoal of fish, warned them against a crane feigning piety by a pond, told in reference to a hypocrite.