jātakäs

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “jātaka, story of a former birth of Buddha”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	jātak
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. jātaka-
Lexeme variants:	jātakäs
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom
voc
acc		jātakäs
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• jātak “jātaka, story of a former birth of Buddha” m

  	pl
  acc	jātakäs

  • jātakṣi “jātaka, story of a former birth of Buddha”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	jātakṣi	jātakṣi

  • cātakṣi “belonging to a jātaka (story of a former life of Buddha)”

    	sg.m
    acc	cātakṣi

Occurrences

jātakäs

1	A 62 a2	4σ /// s ;	jātakä(s)	; kāpñe śolntu ;
2	A 295 b4	mā – (ā)ṣānikāñ bodhisatvāñ	jātakäs	ypeñc b5 – – – – – – – – kṣinaki

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.