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A 153

Known as:	A 153; THT 786
Cite this page as:	Gerd Carling. "A 153". 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-a153 (accessed 03 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 79.11
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	late
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Meter:	M17
Object
Manuscript:	A 144-211
Material:	ink on paper
Form:	Poṭhī
Number of lines:	6

Transliteration

a1	/// ṣl[e] na cpa ryā na ṣpa ryā na¯ ¯c ymāṃ e slyu krā sa· k· na nd· (–) [c]y·¯ ¯s̝ pa lk· ///
a2	/// ·ä lyu¯ ¯nt i ndri syo s̝a¯ ¯t a kma lyo ka lymāṃ pa lko ra¯ ¯s̝ ṣa¯ ¯ts a ñu mā ski nā ·tsu¯ ¯s tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ ///
a3	/// ta preṃ ci ñcro ne klyo mu ne o te ta preṃ ptā ñka tka ṣyā ptā skmāṃ tsu ne o te ta preṃ i kṣvā ku ysa rka śśä ///
a4	/// ntaṃ || mā ta¯ ¯m a ñu mā ski ku cne mo klā ñtā lo¯ ¯s̝ e kro ṣwra sa ñpa¯ ¯t : ptā ñkta cwa s̝ta s̝la ntse¯ ¯ñcä wä ///
a5	/// ṣ[o] kyo a ñu mā ski ṣo kyo nu we yeṃ ta¯ ¯s̝ na nde sṣā mnu ne : ma nta¯ ¯m ri sā¯ ¯t suku ntu maṃ¯ ¯t ta¯ ¯m ri sā¯ (–) ///
a6	/// śā khā wso ko ne yo lyu tā rnāṃ tsu¯ ¯s a ñu mā ski ṣiṃ i me yo na nde na¯ ¯cä kna swmāṃ kā tse ye ///
b1	/// taṃ sā mnu wā skā[¯] [¯ñcä] ka li ṅka spa¯ ¯rśä tsi nā tsi ṣe¯ ¯s̝ sa¯ ¯m śkaṃ ā ṣā ni¯ ¯k s̝a ññu ne yā e ṅka ///
b2	/// ne yā ā sa ñca¯ ¯cä po rro ki e ṅka lsa ntā naṃ ta klāṃ ka pśa ñi sā ka ssi mā śkaṃ ca mpa¯ ¯s ṣū raṃ lcāṃ ///
b3	/// wra¯ ¯m pa ttā ñka¯ ¯t ka ṣṣi e śe yā mtsā ttma¯ ¯k pu tti śpa rṣiṃ cä mplu ne ca mṣū raṃ wa ryo ka knu¯ ¯nt ku ///
b4	/// vi śā khā tka na ṣkā ka tku¯ ¯s ka lyme¯ ¯s lkā māṃ ā ñma śla kka¯ ¯ts tra ṅka¯ ¯s̝ o te ta preṃ ci ñcä rwa ///
b5	/// [p]ru tko ki ñä kci wa¯ ¯r • tma¯ ¯s̝ vi śā khā ṣñi la pā ā lpa tta¯ ¯ts tma¯ ¯k śä¯ ¯rs ta ṣṣo ki ca ṣi ā ṣā ///
b6	/// [l]· pā pa ltā tpaṃ ca ṣśkaṃ pa ttā ñka tka ṣṣi wa ryo ka knu¯ ¯nt ku ñci [t]·i s̝a¯ ¯lyp ma ma ··ṃ (– –) m· r·o ///

Transcription

a1	/// ṣ lenac paryānäṣ paryānac ymāṃ es lyukrā sä(r)k(i) nand(ena)c y(e)ṣ pälk· ///
a2	/// · älyunt indrisyo ṣät akmalyo kälymāṃ pälkoräṣṣ ats añumāski nā(ṃ)tsus träṅkäṣ ///
a3	/// (ote) täpreṃ ciñcrone klyomune ote täpreṃ ptāñkät käṣyāp tāskmāṃtsune ote täpreṃ ikṣvākuy sarkaśśä ///
a4	/// ntaṃ ॥

1a	mā täm añumāski ; kuc ne moklāñ tāloṣ ; ekroṣ wrasañ pat :
1b	ptāñktac waṣtäṣ läntseñc ; wä /// a510σ /// (:)
1c	ṣokyo añumāski ; ṣokyo nu weyeṃ täṣ ; nandes ṣāmnune :
1d	mäntäm risāt sukuntu ; mäṃt täm risā – /// a67σ

	/// (vi)śākhā wsokoneyo lyutār nāṃtsus añumāskiṣiṃ imeyo nandenac knäswmāṃ kātse ye(ṣ) ///
b1	/// täṃ sām nu wāskāñc kaliṅkasparś tsinātsi ṣeṣ säm śkaṃ āṣānik ṣäññuneyā eṅka ///
b2	/// neyā āsäñcac porr oki eṅkäl santānaṃ täklāṃ kapśañi sākässi mā śkaṃ campäs ṣūraṃ lcāṃ ///
b3	/// wram pättāñkät käṣṣi eśe yāmtsāt tmäk puttiśparṣiṃ cämplune cam ṣūraṃ waryo kaknunt ku ///
b4	/// viśākhā tkanäṣ kākätkus kälymes lkāmāṃ āñmaśläkk ats träṅkäṣ ote täpreṃ ciñcär wa ///
b5	/// prutko =ki ñäkci war • tmäṣ viśākhā ṣñi lapā ālpatt ats tmäk śärs täṣṣ oki caṣi āṣā ///
b6	/// l·pā pältāt paṃ caṣ śkaṃ pättāñkät käṣṣi waryo kaknunt kuñcit(ṣ)i ṣälyp mamä · · ṃ – – m·r·o ///

Translation

a4	... it is not surprising that old, wretched or poor people leave the house and go to Buddha ...
a5	very amazing and very surprising [is] yet the monkhood of Nanda ...
a6	... he went in front of Nanda approaching in a revering manner ...
b1	... but this lay-woman was [like] a Kālinga textile to touch ...
b2	... retain the body ...
b3	le Buddha-seigneur, le maître, prit connaissance de l'affaire.
b5	... thereupon, Viśākhā touched her own head, and immediately she knew ...

Other

b2	und er konnte sich nicht zurückhalten (Schmidt 1974: 310)
b5	Darauf strich sich Viśākhā nur über ihren Kopf [und] sogleich wusste sie: ... (Schmidt 1974: 285)

Commentary

Remarks

	Transcription and translation are based on Carling et al. 2009.
	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).

References

Online access

IDP: THT 786; TITUS: THT 786

Miscellaneous

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 82; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 82.

Translations

Carling 2000: a1 (8, 255), a4 (234), b5 (194); Schmidt 1974: b2 (310), b5 (285); Thomas 1957: a5 (240), b5 (263); Thomas 1983a: a1 (27), b4 (14)

Bibliography

Carling 2000

Carling, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

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.

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.

Thomas 1957

Thomas, Werner. 1957. Der Gebrauch der Vergangenheitstempora im Tocharischen. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Thomas 1983a

Thomas, Werner. 1983a. Der tocharische Obliquus im Sinne eines Akkusativs der Richtung. Abhandlungen d. Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse 6. Mainz: Verlag d. Akad. d. Wissenschaften und d. Literatur.

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.”