asurās

Cite this page as:	"asurās". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_asurās (accessed 18 Nov. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “Asura”; a demon
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	asūre
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. asura-
Lexeme variants:	asurās
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	asur	asurāñ
voc
acc	asur	asurās
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl		asurāsäṣṣ
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• asur “Asura” a demon m

  	sg	pl
  nom	asur	asurāñ
  acc	asur	asurās
  abl		asurāsäṣṣ

  • asureṃ “Asura” a demon

    	pl.m
    nom	asureṃñi

Occurrences

asurās

1	A 214 b5	/// oṣeñi epreraṃ ñäktas	asurās	nāgās yakṣāśśi kinna(res) (gandhārveśśi)
2	YQ II.1 b8	(ykoṃ) (oṣeñi) (epreraṃ) (ñäktas)	(asurās)	(nāgās) (yakṣāśśi) (kin)n(a)res gandhārveśśi

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.