Work in progress
A 216
| Known as: | A 216; THT 849 |
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| Cite this page as: | Gerd Carling. "A 216". 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-a216 (accessed 06 Jun. 2026). |
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Edition |
| Editor: | Gerd Carling |
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Provenience |
| Main find spot: | Shorchuk |
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| Specific find spot: | Stadthöhle |
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| Expedition code: | T III Š 69.12, T III Š 69.16 |
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| Collection: | Berlin Turfan Collection |
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Language and Script |
| Language: | TA |
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| Script: | classical |
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Text contents |
| Title of the work: | Maitreyasamiti-Nāṭaka |
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| Passage: | Act 2.4 |
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| Text genre: | Literary |
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| Text subgenre: | Drama |
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| Verse/Prose: | prose; verse |
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Object |
| Manuscript: | M-α |
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| Material: |
ink
on paper |
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| Form: | Poṭhī |
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| Number of lines: | 7 |
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Transliteration
| a1 | /// : 1 || |
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| a2 | /// [ka] lko ra ṣtra |
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| a3 | /// k[la] s[m]āṃ tsa lpā |
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| a4 | /// ku cne mā tā skmāṃ śā |
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| a5 | /// s̝a ce [sa]¯ ¯m śkaṃ ma na rkā |
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| a6 | /// tra k[y]ā ptsa rā e ntsu |
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| a7 | /// tā pa¯ ¯rk wtā ko tā |
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| b1 | /// pa ltsa kyo ma rna s̝ma |
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| b2 | /// n· ya stā pa¯ ¯rk nä ṣri |
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| b3 | /// lla śśi ce ṣma na rkā¯ ¯ñä |
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| b4 | /// ·ā ne tso pa tsaṃ kro¯ ¯p |
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| b5 | /// t[s]i pa skā yä¯ ¯s |
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| b6 | /// kṣaṃ ā le |
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| b7 | /// ñtsa rnā pe |
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Transcription
Other
| b4+ | When you [pl.] come close to the Buddha, the teacher, sitting surrounded by a large crowd, then you [pl.] must try to see the thirty-(two marks) on his body. (cf 83) (Peyrot 2013b: 254) |
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Commentary
Remarks
| * | Transcription and translation are based on Carling et al. 2009. |
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| * | 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). |
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| * | Due to the identification, verso and recto side can now be determined. It is the opposite of what is printed in Sieg and Siegling 1921: 105. |
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Parallel texts
Philological commentary
| * | This fragment, complemented by A 212, contains part of the second act of the Maitreyasamitināṭaka; it corresponds to YQ II.3 b8 - YQ II.4 b6. An Uy. parallel is MaitrHami II, 4a19-5a15. See also Pinault 1999: 195-6. |
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References
Online access
IDP: THT 849; TITUS: THT 849
Edition
Sieg and Siegling 1921: 102, 105; Sieg and Siegling 1921 p. 102, p. 105
Translations
Carling 2000: b6 (206, 207); Peyrot 2013b: b4 b5 (254); Thomas 1954: a1 (733), b2 b3 (714); Thomas 1957: a7 (248); Thomas 1990: b3 b4 (66), b4 (66), b6 (38), b7 (40); Thomas 1995: b3 (62)
