Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-28861328-20140514062714/@comment-3568954-20140516161950

The Winter King wrote: Now thats called translational differences

But successors doesn't make much sense there, calling them reincarnations is more like it,

"Successors of previous generation" means reincarnations, the word successor doesn't seem to fit there

See here, http://www.mangabee.com/Naruto/671.5/3/

That implies sasuke is indra's successor and not his reincarnation, which is obviously incorrect

The japanese version also says the same thing, he says once before he couldn't do anything, that means he regrets overlooking indra and doesn't want to make them same mistake with sasuke

also Naruto is based around various eastern religions such as shinto and Buddhism

Buddhists believe in reincarnation, although not in the sense of an irreducible self passing from body to body. They describe it as a dying candle lighting a new one in other words Indra and Ashura themselves are not being reborn over and over again in new bodies. but what is happening is their chakra is being reborn over and over then attaching itself to a new person and then lighting said persons inner flame(Chakra) so based on the very buddhist definition of reincarnation then yes successor is the correct term its like when the dalai lama chooses his successor(someone who will inherit his essence) the dalai lama doesn't believe that he himself is actually being reborn just his essence and will power its the same thing with hashirama and his will of fire