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A 204

Known as:A 204; THT 837; THT 1583.b; Prelim. No. 506; Pencil No. 3353
Cite this page as:Gerd Carling. "A 204". 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-a204 (accessed 10 May 2026).

Edition

Editor:Gerd Carling

Provenience

Main find spot:Shorchuk
Specific find spot:Stadthöhle
Expedition code:T III Š 97.07
Collection:Berlin Turfan Collection

Language and Script

Language:TA
Script:classical

Text contents

Text genre:Literary

Object

Manuscript:A 144-211
Material: ink on paper
Form:Poṭhī
Number of lines:6

Transliteration

a1/// ¯r la tk[o] rapa¯ ¯ñä a ñc[w]ā ṣi ///
a2/// yä mni s̝ata mṣu [rma] ///
a3/// ¯m lyu tā rme ma ṣtā ///
a4/// [kl]· snā ntā ///
a5/// ·ä s· – ///
a6///
b2/// ·ṣ· spa [t]wra ///
b3/// ¯t wra – swā ///
b4/// sra ṅkā ntā sa lya¯ ¯nt ·ra ///
b5/// [saṃ] wra maṃ mā ca¯ ¯r s·· ///
b6/// [ce] sa¯ ¯mpa¯ ¯ta ptä ntu koṃ ///

Transcription

a1/// r lätkoräṣ päñ añcwāṣi ///
a2/// yämniṣ-äṃ täm ṣurma ///
a3/// m lyutār memaṣ ///
a4/// kl(i)snāntā(ñ) ///
a5/// ·ä – ///
a6///
b2/// ·ṣ·s pat wra ///
b3/// t wraswā ///
b4/// sräṅkāntās{†ä} lyant · ///
b5/// säṃ wramäṃ mācar s·· ///
b6/// cesäm ṣpät ṣäptäntu koṃ ///

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).
*Lines a6 and b1 are lost. This fragment was erroneously reclassified as THT 1583b.

References

Online access

IDP: THT 837, THT 1583b; TITUS: THT 1583, THT 837

Edition

Sieg and Siegling 1921: 99; Tamai 2007a: №1583; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 99