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A 166

Known as:	A 166; THT 799
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 11 Dec. 2023).
Edition
Editor:	Gerd Carling
Provenience
Main find spot:	Šorčuq
Specific find spot:	Stadthöhle
Expedition code:	T III Š 92.19
Collection:	Berlin Turfan Collection (BBAW)
Language and Script
Language:	TA
Script:	late
Text contents
Text genre:	Literary
Meter:	M18
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
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
a2

Xx	9σ /// s· 1σ māṃ ; tsraṃ utkraṃ ; klopant lkātär :
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-
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 ...
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)

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

IDP: THT 799; TITUS: THT 799

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921a: 86; Sieg and Siegling 1921a p. 86

Translations

Schmidt 1974: a2 (194), a5 (194); Thomas 1954a: a5 (738)

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.

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 1954a

Thomas, Werner. 1954a. “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.

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.”