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A 105

Known as:A 105; THT 738
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation). "A 105". 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/?m-a105 (accessed 27 Jul. 2024).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation)

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 63.04
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

Manuscript:A 89-143
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6

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Transliteration

a1/// yā ta¯ ¯m kra·¯ ¯śä ka lpnā ntro ñ[i] – –
a2/// kā ṣlu ne yā ta¯ ¯m śo¯ ¯l pa [r]ka[¯] [¯r] mska ta¯ ¯r
a3/// to¯ ¯m tka ñi śo li¯ ¯s ñā tse [k]lā [nt]ā ñä
a4/// la tmä ṣṣā ñcä¯ ¯m – – m[ā] – – – –
a5/// p· [s̝a¯] [¯k] śo¯ ¯l – – – – – –
a6///
b1///
b2/// [p]ka¯ ¯nt pe nu – – – – – – –
b3/// l· pa ryā naṃ pā kra tka nā pe – – – –
b4/// wra ske kā ta ṅkā s̝aṃ śo¯ ¯l nka¯ ¯s̝ ku pre
b5/// ka śśi yo ka ñi yśa lma sso ntaṃ śo¯ ¯l [k]·
b6/// [ś]o¯ ¯lka ssi ka pśa ñi mā śkaṃ – –

Transcription

a1/// täm kra(ṃ)ś kälpnāntr oñi – –
a2/// (r)kāṣluneyā täm śol pärkär mskatär
a3/// tom tkañi śolis ñātse klāntāñ«†ä»
a4/// l«†ä» tmäṣṣ āñcäm – – – – – –
a5/// ṣäk śol – – – – – –
a6///
b1///
b2/// pkänt penu – – – – – – –
b3/// paryānaṃ pākrä tkanā pe – – – –
b4/// wraske kātäṅkāṣ-äṃ śol nkäṣ kupre
b5/// kaśśi yokañi yśalmass ontaṃ śol
b6/// śol sākässi kapśañi śkaṃ – –

Translation

a1... that... the good ones obtain... human...
a2+... through... life is long...
a3+The foundations of life bring danger...
a4From that, ... self... not...
a5... life...
b2... separately, too...
b3... in a circuit... manifest... over the earth...
b4... illness arises in him. Life disappears.
b4+If...
b5+... hungry and thirsty... the desires... life...
b6... to hold back life... body... no longer...

Commentary

Remarks

Transcription and references have been transferred from the "Text and Reference Database of the Tocharian A Language" (Gerd Carling Lund University) (funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation and SCAS).
Transcription and translation are based on Carling et al. 2009.
Lines a6 and b1 are lost.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 738; TITUS: THT 738

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 60; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 60

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.

IDP

“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.

Sieg and Siegling 1921

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.

Sieg and Siegling 1921

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Personal annotated copy of Wilhelm Siegling. Scanned by Douglas Q. Adams with the technical assistance of Michael Tarabulski and Kevin Dobbins. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.

TITUS

Gippert, Jost, Katharina Kupfer, Christiane Schaefer, and Tatsushi Tamai. n.d. “Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien (TITUS): Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection.” http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/texte/tocharic/thtframe.htm.