A 144 and THT 2485
| Known as: | A 144 and THT 2485; A 144; THT 777; THT 2485 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling. "A 144 and THT 2485". 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-a144andtht2485 (accessed 09 Nov. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 80.26 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | late |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Meter: | 665 (4x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 144-211 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Transliteration
| a1 | /// lymy· ś[śi] lo ka lkā¯ ¯s̝t kuca śś· lla śśi – pla ·[tt]· rñu kl· – /// |
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| a2 | /// ñä kcyā¯ ¯s kule wā saṃ tra ṅkñä lna sa¯ ¯m kucä ṣnu na¯ ¯s̝ – /// |
| a3 | /// s̝a ṣñi na slu ne yä ṣkā ta¯ ¯k ylā [r]i mā ca ·l· [s]· – s· ya cco ki na – – ckā tse yä¯ ¯s̝ s· |
| a4 | /// m· mrā ctsi to ra ṣtra ṅks̝a nna na¯ ¯cä pra ca rn· – – te ya tā rhi ma va¯ ¯nt ṣu¯ ¯l – – || tma ṣna nde |
| a5 | /// ¯m śā kki śi ka pi la vā stu ri na ṣ[nu] na ṣt[ā] pa¯ ¯rk hi ma va¯ ¯nt ṣu la¯ ¯cä – ka pi la vā s – |
| a6 | /// [ṣ]kā¯ ¯t kmāṃ nāṃ tsu tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ kri ñi ā ṣā ni kṣo kyo kri ñi || tma¯ ¯s̝ ptā ñka tka ṣṣi na nde[¯] [¯s] – |
| b1 | /// tw· knā || [ke] śi kaṃ || maṃ tne ko kā śśi lāṃ¯ ¯śä tso pa tsaṃ wrā e s̝a¯ ¯k kṣā¯ ¯lyä kṣā lya¯ ¯cä ymāṃ ne – |
| b2 | /// [¯s] kṣa triṃ pra tri ti¯ ¯m : ra traṃ wsā lu yā m[p]i wsā yo kāṃ [ya] tsyā m[p]i lā ntse w· ññā mpi : ka ṣka |
| b3 | /// ñño ki pla wa¯ ¯r e pre raṃ : 1 || taṃ ne wka ·o – ñka tka ṣṣi ñä kta sna pe na ś·i [l]· – śśi o kā¯ ¯k |
| b4 | /// lu tka smāṃ na nde na śśä lṣya¯ ¯k [j]· t· vaṃ – – ··ṃku ra¯ ¯s̝ hi ma – – ṣu la¯ ¯cä ka[¯] [¯]l[k] || |
| b5 | /// plā cka pi la vā stu ri yaṃ ka rsnā lyi tma ṣna nd· /// |
| b6 | /// nta a kma lyo ā ka rnu¯ ¯nt a śä ··[o] va s[u] [n]dha ri – /// |
Transcription
| a1 | n1 /// (kuc) (kä)lymy (a)śśi lo kälkāṣt kucaśś(ä)ll aśśi (tu) pla(n)tt(ā)r ñuk l· /// |
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| a2 | /// ñäkcyās kulewāsaṃ träṅkñäl nasam kucäṣ nu näṣ – /// |
| a3 | n2 /// ṣ{†ä} ṣñi nasluneyäṣ kātäk ylāri māca(r) (k)l(opa)s(unt) s(e)yacc oki na(ndena)c kātse yäṣ s· |
| a4 | n3 /// (ca)m(i) mrāc tsitoräṣ träṅkṣänn-anac pracar n(ande) (mā) te yatār himavant ṣul – – ॥ tmäṣ nande |
| a5 | n4 /// m śākkiśi kapilavāstu ri naṣ nu näṣ tāpärk himavant ṣulac (ymāṃ) kapilavās(tu) |
| a6 | n5 /// (tmä)ṣ kātkmāṃ nāṃtsu träṅkäṣ kri ñi āṣānik ṣokyo kri ñi ॥ tmäṣ ptāñkät käṣṣi nandes (tsa) |
| b1 | n6 (rā) (eṃtsuräṣ) (orto) (kātäk) (täm) (nu) (mäṃ)t w(ä)knā ॥ keśikaṃ ॥ |
| 1a | mäṃt ne kokāśśi lāṃś ; tsopatsäṃ wrā eṣäk ; kṣāly kṣālyacn7 ymāṃ ne(ñc) 0σ |
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| 1b | b2n8 12σ (:) – – – – – – – – – – – – s ; kṣatriṃ pratri tim : |
| 1c | rätraṃ wsāluy= āmpi ; wsā yokāṃ yatsy= āmpi ; lānt sew(ā)ññ āmpi : |
| 1d | kaṣ ka b3n9 8σ – – – – – – – – ññ oki ; plawar epreraṃ : 1 ॥ |
| * | taṃne wkä(ny)o (ptā)ñkät käṣṣi ñäktas napenäś(ś)i l(wā)śśi okāk |
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| b4 | n10 /// lutkäsmāṃ nandenaśśäl ṣyak j(e)t(a)vaṃ (saṃkrāmaṃ) (na)ṃkuräṣ hima(vant) ṣulac kälk ॥ |
| b5 | n11 (॥) (sās) (nu) (tāpärk) plāc kapilavāstu riyaṃ kärsnālyi tmäṣ nand(e) /// |
| b6 | n12 /// nt{†ä} akmalyo ākärnunt aśä(ny)o vasundhari – /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... "In which direction did you go? With whom do you rejoice?". "I ... " |
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| a2 | ... "I could get attached to divine women. But from what .. I ...?" |
| a3 | ... (the Buddha) rose from his own nature (?), he approaches Nanda like an old mother (approaches) (her) unhappy son ... |
| a4 | ... touching his head, he says to him: "Oh brother Nanda,n13 would you not make (a journey/pilgrimage to) Mount Himālaya?". || Then Nanda ... |
| a5 | ... The city of the Śākyas, Kapilavāstu, is (there/that?). But now, on the way to the mountain Himālaya, Kapilavāstu ... |
| a6 | ... (Then?), rejoicing, he says: "This is my will, oh venerable one, this is truly my will". || Then Buddha, the teacher, (taking the hand?) of Nanda |
| b1 | ...n14 (rose up, but how so?). || In the Keśika-tune: || Like the great kings of the ruddy geese, (flying) over the great water wing to wing (?) ... |
| b2 | ...n15 these two kṣatriya brothers ... both in red robes, both with golden-colored skin, both sons of king ... |
| b3 | ... as if ... they were flying in the sky. || In that way, Buddha, the teacher, ... of gods and human beings and even of animals ... |
| b4 | ... turning, having disappeared together with Nanda from the monastery of Jetavana, he went to Mount Himālaya. |
| b5 | || Now this dialogue (is) to be understood (as taking place) in the city of Kapilavāstu. Then, Nanda ... |
| b6 | ... with a ... face, with tears in his eyes,n16 Vasundhari ... |
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. | |
| The current edition is mainly based on Itkin 2024: 16-21. Following Sieg and Siegling 1921: 253, recto and verso have been switched. |
Philological commentary
| Drama form | |
| n1 | Restorations (kuc) (kä)lymy (a)śśiand (tu)proposed by Itkin 2024: 17. |
| n2 | Restorations ylāri, (k)l(opa)s(unt)and na(ndena)cproposed by Itkin 2024: 17. |
| n3 | (ca)m(i)restored by Itkin 2024: 17, together with n(ande) (mā). |
| n4 | (ymāṃ)proposed by Itkin 2024: 18 |
| n5 | As Itkin 2024: 18 points out, the reading [p]proposed by Sieg and Siegling 1921 does not seem to offer any convincing solution, hence his tentative restoration (tmä)[ṣ]or, eventually, according to Malyshev (tmäṣ lyutār mema)[ṣ]. |
| n6 | On behalf of two parallels (i.e. Aśvaghoṣa, SN 10.3, and a passage from the Saṃgāmāvacara-jātaka), Itkin 2024: 18-19 to restore (tsarā) (eṃtsuräṣ) (orto) (kātäk) (täm) (nu) (mäṃ)t. |
| n7 | Based on the parallel in Aśvaghoṣa (SN 10.4), Itkin 2024: 19 proposes to translate kṣāly kṣālyacas "wing to wing". |
| n8 | Both the restoration of ne(ñc)instead of teand the amount of lost aksharas are proposed by Itkin 2024: 19. |
| n9 | The size of the lacuna is suggested here by Itkin 2024: 19. |
| n10 | The restoration (saṃkrāmaṃ) (na)ṃkuräṣis proposed by Itkin 2024: 19. The form naṃkuräṣwas firstly suggested by Sieg et al. 1931: 445. The restoration of saṃkrāmin the locative form looks likely based on the context. |
| n11 | Restoration (||) (sās) (nu) (tāpärk)suggested by Itkin 2024: 20. |
| n12 | The presence of the name vasundharilooks problematic here (see Itkin 2024: 20 on this; consider also THT 1148 a3 and m-tht3024 a1, which might "belong to neighboring folios"), but the restoration is almost sure. |
| n13 | As Itkin 2024: 18, a likely parallel to this passage is J. II 182, the so-called Samgamavacara-Jātaka, where the Buddha asks Nanda if he has ever made a pilgrimage to the Himalayas. |
| n16 | As pointed out by Itkin 2024: 20, the reading vasundhariis attested in two other fragments, i.e. THT 1148 a3 and (probably) m-tht3024 a1. Whether this is a variant of Sundarī, Nanda´s wife, is still uncertain. |
Parallel texts
| n14 | Cf. SN 10.3: pāṇau gṛhītvā viyad utpapāta maṇiṃ jale sādhur ivojjihīrṣuḥ. |
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| n15 | Cf. SN 10.4: kāṣāyavastrau kanakāvadātau virejatus tau nabhasi prasanne | anyonyasaṃśliṣṭavikīrṇapakṣau saraḥprakīrṇāv iva cakravākau ||. |
References
Miscellaneous
Itkin 2024: 16
Online access
IDP: THT 777; TITUS: THT 777; IDP: THT 2485; TITUS: THT 2485
other
Tamai 2007a: №2485
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 76; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 76
Translations
Carling 2000: a2 (236), a3 (352), b1 (127, 254, 335), b3 (139, 358), b4 (128, 129), b5 (160); Carling et al. 2009: a6 (217); Hackstein 1995: b3 (93); Thomas 1952: a2 (41); Thomas 1957: a1 (239); Thomas 1960a: a4 (201)
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