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A 117

Known as:	A 117; THT 750
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling. "A 117". 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-a117 (accessed 02 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 79.06
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	late
Text contents
Title of the work:	Nanda-carita I
Text genre:	Literary
Meter:	M18
Object
Manuscript:	A 89-143
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	6

Transliteration

a1	/// pe wla lu ne kā tkā śśi ṣā mnā śśi a śśā śśi kra ñcä śśi u mpa rñ[e]
a2	/// lu ne ma ska ta¯ ¯r kraṃ śnu ta¯ ¯m ku¯ ¯s tra ṅka ntra ku sne ā ṣtraṃ pā pṣu
a3	/// ta ta¯ ¯r mā wa¯ ¯s̝t lmo ntā¯ ¯p kuya lte || ā rya hā raṃ || kā ma¯ ¯r ā
a4	/// ·u¯ ¯nt : to mnu na kse¯ ¯ñcä pā pṣu ne ta myo wa¯ ¯s̝t lmo pā pṣu ne ma¯ ¯nt
a5	/// ·ā pṣu wra ·o¯ ¯m sne o nmiṃ śla kā cke sa¯ ¯m wä llä ṣtra yä
a6	/// lye ksa¯ ¯s̝ wā ka s̝ta¯ ¯r ku pre ne na nde
b1	/// yo śā kki¯ ¯ñä ma śki tā¯ ¯ñä pra cre wa s̝ta
b2	/// sn· y· (–) – rko wä ntu ma ska ntra wa s̝ta¯ ¯s̝ la ltu
b3	/// lt· || ya rā ssi naṃ || ra ska rpe nu sāṃ ta ktā¯ ¯s̝ wra ske ntu nu cä mpa
b4	/// kwra ske yu¯ ¯nt śwā tsi wä tka¯ ¯s̝ : sne lyu tā rna¯ ¯s̝ sāṃ tke nu knā
b5	/// sāṃ ta¯ ¯k saṃ va rṣiṃ pa ṣtā¯ ¯k ṣā maṃ : 1 mka lto ā kna¯ ¯ts ā co tā¯ ¯s̝
b6	/// rca mi ṣū ṅka ṣpre tsa knā ta¯ ¯r ta¯ ¯m : ta mne me nā¯ ¯k tu na nde ska

Transcription

a1	/// pe wlalune kātkāśśi ṣāmnāśśi aśśāśśi krañcäśśi umparñe
a2	/// lune mäskatär kraṃś nu täm kus träṅkänträ kus ne āṣträṃ pāpṣu
a3	/// tatär mā waṣt lmontāp kuyalte ॥ āryahāraṃ ॥

1a	kāmar ā a414σ /// · unt :
1b	tom nu näkseñc ; pāpṣune ; tämyo waṣt lmo ; pāpṣune ; mänt a53σ
1c	18σ ///
1d	(p)āpṣu wra(s)om ; sne onmiṃ ; śla kācke säm ; wälläṣträ ; yä a63σ

	/// (ā)lyeksäṣ wākäṣtär kupre ne nande
b1	/// yo śākkiñ mäśkitāñ pracre waṣtä
b2	/// sn(e) y · – (pä)rkowäntu mäskanträ waṣtäṣ laltu
b3	/// lt · ॥ yarāssinaṃ ॥

1a	räskär penu ; sāṃtäk tāṣ ; wraskentu nu ; cämpa b45σ
1b	11σ /// k ; wraskeyunt ; śwātsi wätkäṣ :
1c	sne lyutār näṣ ; sāṃtke nu ; knā b510σ
1d	9σ /// sāṃtäk ; saṃvarṣiṃ ; päṣtāk ṣāmaṃ : 1
2a	mkälto āknats ; āco tāṣ ; b611σ
2b	9σ /// r cami ; ṣūṅkäṣ pre ; tsäknātär täm :
2c	tämne menāk ; tu nande ; ska

Translation

a1	... for householders, monks, nuns, for good ones [and] bad ones
a2	... who are now called “the good ones”? ...
b5	... 1 When the embryo is small and ignorant

Other

a2	Welche werden da aber gut genannt? (Schmidt 1974: 222)

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.

References

Miscellaneous

Online access

IDP: THT 750; TITUS: THT 750

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 66; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 66

Translations

Hackstein 1995: a6 (130), b6 (141); Schmidt 1974: a2 (222)

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.

Hackstein 1995

Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

IDP

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

Schmidt 1974

Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD thesis, Universität Göttingen.

Sieg and Siegling 1921a

Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921a. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. 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.”