A 166
| Known as: | A 166; THT 799 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling. "A 166". 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-a166 (accessed 22 May 2025). |
Edition | |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling |
Provenience | |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
| Expedition code: | T III Š 92.19 |
| 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 | /// ·[w]· c· m[i] św[e]¯ ¯ñcä – – – – ku |
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| a2 | /// s· māṃ tsraṃ u tkraṃ klo pa¯ ¯nt lkā ta¯ ¯r : kro śśi |
| a3 | /// ka rṣto wä lko ki klo pa¯ ¯nt u tkraṃ wä rpnā ta¯ ¯r |
| a4 | /// ṅke ñcäṃ : kā tska¯ ¯rk nī maṃ mlo kī ñcäṃ e snaṃ prā |
| a5 | /// pa¯ ¯nt lkā ta¯ ¯r : mā sa mtra ṅktsi cä mpa mo mā klo – |
| a6 | /// klo paṃ paṃ tko tā ki¯ ¯s̝ : a tra ta mpe [m]o – ·o – – |
| b1 | /// wä rpi ta¯ ¯r tma śśä ltā skmāṃ : ki pka [pśi] [ñ]ñ· – – |
| b2 | /// ne ṣṣā¯ ¯s klo pa¯ ¯nt wä rpo ra¯ ¯s̝ la ñcä¯ ¯s̝ tma – |
| b3 | /// ·p· nu sa mña re ṣi nā sso ki klo pa¯ ¯nt wä rpnā |
| b4 | /// sla mnā ntsu¯ ¯nt pa lko¯ ¯nt a ñcwā ṣiṃ pa¯ ¯t pla kṣiṃ |
| b5 | /// ñci s̝aṃ : tma śśä ltā skmāṃ ca mi ṣo ṅkā tsā śśi |
| b6 | /// tā lo ā [c]o [tā] – – ka rṣto o |
Transcription
| a1 | /// ·w· c(a)mi śweñc – – – – ku |
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| a2 |
| Xx | 9σ /// s· 1σ māṃ ; tsraṃ utkraṃ ; klopant lkātär : |
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| Xx | krośśi a316σ |
| Xx | 2σ /// kärṣto ; wälk= oki ; klopant utkraṃ ; wärpnātär a44σ |
| Xx | 16σ /// ṅkeñc-äṃ : |
| Xx | kāts kärknīm-äṃ ; mlokīñc-äṃ ; esnaṃ prāa5(kraṃ) ; (āyäntu) ; 4σ |
| Xx | 15σ /// pant lkātär : |
| Xx | mā säm träṅktsi ; cämpamo ; mā klo – a69σ |
| Xx | 12σ /// klopaṃ ; päṃtko tākiṣ : |
| Xx | atra tampe ; mo – ·o ; – – b111σ |
| Xx | 11σ /// ; wärpitär ; tmaśśäl tāskmāṃ : |
| Xx | kip kapśiññ· ; – – b214σ |
| Xx | 7σ /// neṣṣās klopant ; wärporäṣ ; läñcäṣ tmä – |
| b3 | /// ·p· nu säm ñareṣināss oki klopant wärpnā¬ |
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| b4 | (tär) /// slam nāntsunt pälkont añcwāṣiṃ pat pläkṣiṃ |
| b5 | /// ñciṣäṃ : tmaśśäl tāskmāṃ cami ṣoṅkātsāśśi |
| b6 | /// tālo āco tā – – kärṣto o |
Translation
| a2 | ... he sees harsh and severe pains ... |
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| a3 | as if he was cut or crushed(?) He suffers severe pains |
| a4 | they … him. I should bind his stomach and they should squeeze the solid (bones) in his shoulders. |
| a5 | he is not able to speak |
Other
| a2 | ... erduldet er harte und furchtbare Leiden. (Schmidt 1974: 194) |
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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. |
Philological commentary
| Garbhasūtra |
References
Miscellaneous
Online access
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 86; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 86
Translations
Schmidt 1974: a2 (194), a5 (194); Thomas 1954: a5 (738)
Bibliography
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.
Schmidt, Klaus T. 1974. “Die Gebrauchsweisen des Mediums im Tocharischen.” PhD, Universität Göttingen.
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. 1954. “Die Infinitive im Tocharischen.” In Asiatica. Festschrift Friedrich Weller. Zum 65. Geburtstag, gewidmet von seinen Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern, edited by Johannes Schubert and Ulrich Schneider, 701–64. Leipzig: Harrassowitz.
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.
