A 155
| Known as: | A 155; THT 788 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation). "A 155". 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-a155 (accessed 06 Oct. 2024). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling; Adrian Musitz (translation) |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 92.17 |
| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
Language and Script | |
| Language: | TA |
| Script: | late |
Text contents | |
| Text genre: | Literary |
| Meter: | 43434 (4x) |
Object | |
| Manuscript: | A 144-211 |
| Material: | ink on paper |
| Form: | Poṭhī |
| Number of lines: | 6 |
Images
Images from idp.bl.uk by courtesy of the International Dunhuang Project, the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Orientabteilung.
Transliteration
| a1 | /// tṣ· p· m· e (–) ntā na¯ ¯s̝ św· ts· w[ä] [rp]n· m· t· /// |
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| a2 | /// kle śā śśi ṣru mnā ntsu kuya lte || ya rā ssi naṃ || tra ṅklu /// |
| a3 | /// pl[ā] cä nyo tra ssa ntra knā ntra śā waṃ ma ṅkaṃ twaṃ śwā tsi ṣu rma¯ ¯s̝ /// |
| a4 | /// la mwä¯ ¯cä śwā tsi ṣu rma¯ ¯s̝ : pā ca rmā ca rse ckā ca¯ ¯r wa co¯ ¯s̝ ka śa¯ – /// |
| a5 | /// mā ca rtā¯ ¯s̝ ṣñi se wā¯ ¯s sä rki ñco lo śwā¯ ¯s̝ maṃ t·e /// |
| a6 | /// [ś]ā mā ñ·äṃ ṣñi se ś[w]ā tsi lo pa l(·)o [s]e /// |
| b1 | /// ·t· ta tk· ta ma· tpa tnu śtwa· ma śk· /// |
| b2 | /// swa¯ ¯r ta¯ ¯m śwā māṃ kā rā¯ ¯ś ka tk[a]¯ ¯r • taṃ ne wka nyo św· /// |
| b3 | /// ntsi wso miṃ ā rṣa llo ki a na hā lwä sso ki pra skā lla na ṣnāṃ tsu /// |
| b4 | /// maṃ wcaṃ lo tkā śwā tsi nā kma su¯ ¯nt lkā¯ ¯s̝ sa¯ ¯s śwā tsi mā ·i /// |
| b5 | /// ka¯ ¯nt pa¯ ¯t kā pā ra stā pa¯ ¯s̝ koṃ wṣe a¯ ¯ts wra maṃ /// |
| b6 | /// ·ā¯ ¯s̝ ka¯ ¯nt – klā pe nu śo¯ ¯s̝ ā rts(·)oṃ nu ś·ā t·i /// |
Transcription
| a1 | /// tṣ· p· m· e(ṣä)ntānäṣ św(ā)ts(i) wärpn· m· t· /// |
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| a2 | /// kleśāśśi ṣrum nāntsu kuyalte ॥ yarāssinaṃ ॥ |
| 1a | träṅklu /// 16σ |
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| 1b | a3 1σ /// plācänyo ; trässanträ ; knānträ śāwaṃ ; maṅkäṃtwaṃ ; śwātsi ṣurmaṣ |
| 1c | /// a4 12σ /// lam wäc ; śwātsi ṣurmaṣ : |
| 1d | pācar mācar ; se ckācar ; wacoṣ kaśa – 0σ ; /// 7σ |
| a5 | /// mācar tāṣ ṣñi sewās särkiñco lo śwāṣ mäṃt (n)e /// |
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| a6 | /// śā mā ñ·äṃ ṣñi se śwātsi lo päl·o se /// |
| b1 | /// ·t· tätk·t{†ä} mä(ṃ)t pat nu śtwa(r) mäśk(i) /// |
| b2 | /// swar täm śwāmāṃ kārāś katkar • taṃne wkänyo św· /// |
| b3 | /// ntsi wsomiṃ ārṣall oki anahāl wäss oki präskāll anäṣ nāṃtsu /// |
| b4 | /// maṃ wcaṃ lotkā śwātsi nākmasunt lkāṣ säs śwātsi mā ·i /// |
| b5 | /// känt pat kāpāräs tāpaṣ koṃ wṣe ats wramaṃ /// |
| b6 | /// ·āṣ känt (pu)klā penu śoṣ ārts (k)oṃ nu ś(w)āt(s)i /// |
Translation
| a1 | ... enjoy food from the one giving (it)... |
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| a2 | In the yarāssiṃ-tune: ... attachment... |
| a3 | ... are ground up (?) by words... They are being scattered in great faults to eat (?) |
| a3+ | ... to eat each other ... |
| a4 | Father, mother, son, daughter, struggling together (?)... |
| a5 | ... if the mother is..., she finally eats her own children, as... |
| a6 | ... to eat the own son... |
| b1 | ... how four princes... |
| b2 | ... eating it, they crossed the jungle... In this way... |
| b3 | ... like a poisonous snake, like the halāhala-poison, it has come to be feared (?) |
| b4 | ... in a second way, ... sees faulty food. The food... not... |
| b5 | ... or if... eats a hundred morsels, night and day... thing... |
| b6 | ... lives... for a hundred years... To eat every day... |
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
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 83; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 83
Translations
Carling 2000: b2 (111), b5 (297), b6 (404); Thomas 1952: b3 (30); Thomas 1972: a4 (441)
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd. 2000. Die Funktion der lokalen Kasus im Tocharischen. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
“The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online.” n.d. http://idp.bl.uk.
Sieg, Emil, and Wilhelm Siegling. 1921. Tocharische Sprachreste, I. Band. Die Texte. A. Transcription. Berlin/Leipzig: de Gruyter.
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.
Thomas, Werner. 1952. Die tocharischen Verbaladjektive auf -l. Deutsche Akad. der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut für Orientforschung 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
Thomas, Werner. 1972. “Zweigliedrige Wortverbindungen im Tocharischen.” Orbis 21: 429–70.
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.
